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#BBCNews - Counter-terror police investigating Heathrow fire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg5dg4p2l0o

And the chaos the shutdown is causing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt
Heathrow Airport latest

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The American beef Industry understood its climate impact decades ago

The American beef industry knew that raising cattle was a significant source of planet-warming emissions as early as 1989, but scrambled to discredit public efforts to lower beef consumption in the following years, according to new research
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/21/news/american-beef-industry-climate-impact

#USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #environment #climate

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Under The Great American Reich U.S. Citizens Can Be Arrested and Held Without Due Process


https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-america-where-even-us-citizens-616



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#Windows shortcut exploit used by state hackers as a 0-day since 2017 https://borncity.com/win/2025/03/21/windows-shortcut-exploit-used-by-state-hackers-as-a-0-day-since-2017/ 'Security researchers from the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) point to a 0-day vulnerability (ZDI-CAN-25373) in Windows, which has probably been exploited by 11 state-supported hacker groups from North Korea, Iran, Russia and China since 2017. #Microsoft rated the vulnerability in shortcut files as "not sufficiently" critical in Sep. 2024 and rejected a patch.'

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@Sharon 🤦🏾‍♀️ Persists

Because of the work he does for the government, he has some clearance

Because of his ketamine use, he has less clearance than many of his engineers at space x et al

Because of his billions of dollars he has clearance that he otherwise wouldn't

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One of the great many differences between #MarkCarney & Poilievre is Carney can explain where his money came from. #Poilievre became a millionaire IN GOVERNMENT.

Only 6.83% of Canadians are millionaires. #Poilievre is one of them and he's only EVER worked in government. Good thing we Canadians can count on news folk like #RosemarieBarton to hold at least one side of the political divide accountable. #CdnMediaFailed #cdnpoli

#cdnpoli

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#SenatorRaphaelWarnock
"DOGE closed 5 social security offices in GA a couple weeks ago. Now, they’re telling Georgia seniors they can't use the phone to claim benefits either.

Let's call this what it is: An intentional attempt to stop folks from claiming benefits they've EARNED. I will fight this."

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My neighborhood sure looks different these days. #Ballard #Seattle

Link: https://instagram.com/p/B_gF7nPFIaq

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“Following China’s unannounced naval exercises off the coast of Australia late last month, there has been a noticeable increase in Chinese social media content promoting the invasion (or ‘nabbing/seizing‘) of Australia.” https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/03/translation-why-is-everyone-talking-about-china-seizing-australia/

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Divide I've noticed: people who have never experienced systemic oppression in their own or their family's lives are treating this like business as usual. Those who have family memories of camps, unjust incarceration, or are part of vulnerable communities, are freaking out. Listen to the latter.

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US is no longer a reliable ally to Australia. Former ADF chief Chris Barrie sees Australia as now being in a similar situation as 1942 & the fall of Singapore. #auspol https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/21/vandals-in-the-white-house-no-longer-reliable-allies-to-australia-former-defence-force-chief-says-ntwnfb

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'He's Building a #ConcentrationCamp': Fears Grow as Images Emerge of Offshore Prison at #Gitmo

"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."

by Jon Queally, Feb 09, 2025

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gitmo-concentration-camp
#GuantanamoBay #NDAA #IndefiniteDetentionClause #IndefiniteDetention #USPol #HumanRights #Torture #Fascism #authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule

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America, you better do something, quick...

I am no longer surprised about anything that club of total morons in the White House do. There's one thing that keeps surprising me though, more and more: the lack of action by the people.


I am no longer surprised about anything that club of total morons in the White House do. Really, I pity comedians, because it's basically become impossible to create a sketch that's even more absurd than what's happening for real.

There's one thing that keeps surprising me though, more and more: the lack of action by the people.

I mean, burning down your neighbor's car because it's a #Tesla can feel nice, but it doesn't help. It does nothing against the pack of utter looneys destroying the US. That needs a different kind of action.

Surely the American people have a basic knowledge of history, right? You must hear all those alarm bells going off right now, not?

Teaming up with rich industrialists, making journalists' lives impossible, ignoring laws and saying judges should keep their mouths shut, deporting people, getting cosy with dictators and quickly breaking down all kinds of democratic institutions.

#America, come on, you must understand where this is going! The nazis didn't start with the gas chambers, it took a while before they got to that point.

Act now, or you're going to end up like the German people in the 1930s. Or like the Russian people. Living under a dictator, in a society where every bit of criticism can get you in prison - or worse.

A few points from the Fascist Playbook, https://radixuk.org/opinion/the-mussolini-populist-playbook-a-guide-for-the-2020s

  • First, create a clear national identity to celebrate, primarily by defining who does not belong to the nation, who is the “other”. This may be by pure ethnicity or place of birth, contribution to the country, perceived affiliation, etc.
  • Secondly, create manifest, visible expressions of (muscular) action “for the people”. Economic arguments for action or actual value of actions are far less important than their symbolic populist value.
  • Thirdly, embed one’s power, democratically or otherwise, by diminishing the role of other potential opposing forces in whatever is the national “balance of power”, with a particular focus on limiting an independent judiciary.
  • Fourthly, focus on control of the media message. This means both being very slick, focused and professional in managing one’s own message, but also finding ways of undermining, and where possible, eliminating opposing media voices.
  • Fifthly, a cabinet or government is less popular than a personal leader, so the personality of the leader is important. The leader must be seen as muscular, action-oriented, intelligent but not intellectual (intellectuals are never popular), a man of the people.

Give Agent Orange and his henchmen a bit more time, and the only way you'll ever get rid of him is a revolution. The time to act is now (or rather: yesterday).

#USpol #Trump #Fascism


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> The nazis didn't start with the gas chambers, it took a while before they got to that point.

True, they got easy political repute by combating communist radicals doing things like burning stuff down

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1995
GenX: housing is unaffordable
Boomers: suck it assholes we got ours

2005
Millennials: housing is unaffordable
Boomers: lol stop eating avocado toast

2015
GenZ: housing is unaffordable
Boomers: no one wants to work. lazy.

2025
Boomers in million dollar homes: eggs are unaffordable let's do a fascism about it

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And with this statement, here is the moment when the U.S. Government is basically no more trustworthy with your data than an Experian, Equifax, or Transunion:

"Officials at the White House said Thursday that a plan was in place to help those whose personal information was disclosed, INCLUDING CREDIT MONITORING..."

Free Credit Monitoring... The "Thoughts and Prayers" of the Data Breach World...

https://apnews.com/article/jfk-assassination-files-personal-information-5609ccd6e106c5b30ee6b6cca3a30e3c

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People who are skeptical about ICE setting up labor camps since it's just being contracted out to private corporations. 😒

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Measles is spreading across Canada. A look at the affected areas
Measles is surging across Canada, alarming health officials as new cases emerge in the Prairies, possibly signaling the westward spread of Ontario's outbreak.
#health #disease #geography #Canada #Ontario #Prairies
https://globalnews.ca/news/11088746/measles-outbreak-canada-affected-areas/

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Wenn man #Teslas beschmiert wird es zu einer politischen Straftat und der Staatsschutz wird eingeschaltet..... okay 🤔

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We need to recognize the threat that the Democratic party poses to us and our freedom. The Democrats stand between us and the fascists. They don't have to, they could choose our side, but they don't.

This is what we see from Schumer and Jeffries. There are a few dems on the edges chirping and squeaking, but they have no power. The party is led by people like Schumer and his wealthy donors.

People need to abandon the Democrats as a means to stop these fascists. It's simply not possible. They may change their tune in the future, but they are not today, and we don't have years to wait for them to figure it out.

People need to see an alternative movement outside of the Democratic Party. That movement can pull the party to the left, but the party will never willingly go to the left. The party has a history of being on the wrong side of history.

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🚨Active Exploitation Alert: Critical Apache Tomcat RCE (CVE-2025-24813). Majority of traffic targeting U.S.-based systems. Exploits limited to naive attackers using PoC code. Full analysis & attacker IPs: https://greynoise.io/blog/active-exploitation-critical-apache-tomcat-rce-vulnerability-cve-2025-24813
#ApacheTomcat #Apache #GreyNoise #Vulnerability #CVE202524813
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Not to be pedantic, but the title says "Active Exploitation" and the article says "GreyNoise has observed four unique IPs attempting to exploit this vulnerability since March 17, 2025." Do we know yet if any of it is successful exploitation, or possibly still just PoCs getting chucked around?
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"GreyNoise observed exploitation attempts as early as March 11" -> Please note that PoC was publicly available since that way:

https://scrapco.de/blog/analysis-of-cve-2025-24813-apache-tomcat-path-equivalence-rce.html

Also note that even with HTTP response data it's not straightforward to conclude that:
- file based session management was configured
- there were useful gadget chains available


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no! stay home! no one invits you here! no one wants you here! no one needs you here!
keep your gentrificationshit by your self and enjoy your poor empty life without consumption of other places were you have nothing to do!
stop travelling! stop fucking tourism! go to hell!

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Fremont Brewing promotes their Head Full Of Dynomite Hazy IPA to year-round. . Read more here! https://www.northwestbeerguide.com/home/2025-fremontbrewing-hfodyear #Washington #beer #news

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Vandalism is not "domestic terrorism". Terrorism attacks and scares people, not capital, with the goal of creating fear in a population. The general population is not afraid of telsa dealership attacks, nor are any minority groups. Fear of TSLA tanking is not it.

Sadly, even Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show recently called it "domestic terrorism", playing into the language of the right.

https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114196320408353949

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The largest terrorist group in the world (the US government) calling folks protesting against it "terrorists" is rich. :P
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Destroying a nazi’s property is patriotic. Violence directed at nazis is patriotic.

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The City of Toronto is trying to use bylaws to limit where protests can happen. Let's stop this from happening via their public consultation.

https://ca.mar.medallia.com/?e=435469&d=e&h=A073C636BB9C49B&l=en

Fill it out. Share with your friends. Make them stop this from happening.

#toronto #topoli #torontoaction @Gigi

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Is there anything cool I could do with an HP Jornada 560 (I forget the exact model no.) in 2025? Is there even hope to replace the very very bad battery?

#pda #WindowsCE #HPJornada #RetroComputing

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Britain Issues Travel Warning for US: https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878

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Interesting

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No one has asked anyone to define efficiency. This has led to a lot of pain, suffering, and job loss.

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On the news of Melon Husk recomending Amtrak be privatized:

This nugget from an Amtrak white paper:

• Brightline, which operates between Orlando and Miami, has never been profitable since it commenced service in 2018 and has billions of dollars in debt.7 It recently sought and was awarded a $33.8 million federal grant to cover operating expenses.

here is the PDF:
https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/public/documents/corporate/amtrak-financial-performance-faqs-03052025.pdf

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The only way to get Nixon to not veto creation of the National Railroad Passenger Corp was to structure it as a private corp. Common stock was held by the railroads that "joined" Amtrak, either by paying in, or in-kind transfer of equipment. Preferred stock was/is held by the USDOT. Eventually, Carl Lindner ended up owning most or all of the common stock -- most of which had been held by heirs of Penn Central -- and he lost his bid in court to have them priced at something >$0.
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From Musk's point of view it's a no brainer. Privatise it, and the service goes to shit, so more people buy swasticars, while shareholders get tax money piped up to them in subsidies. Only the people who use it suffer, and who cares about them?

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Just watched the 1981 Nova episode "Computers, Spies and Private Lives", downloaded from https://archive.org/details/ComputersSpiesAndPrivateLives

I learned: 1) Nixon well understood the threat of data storage on our privacy. I fully agree with his intro/outro commentary!

2) computer-based micro targeting for political purposes was already commonplace then.

3) every concern about how privacy might be eroded in the future has come true.

4) they knew encryption protects privacy.

I wonder if @lauren recognizes anyone.

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Lauren Weinstein is ignored

in reply to Lauren Weinstein

I'm all out of both hooks and crooks so I'll not be getting information from you.


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Amazon Are Lying Gits, pt. 273 of an ongoing series

I was looking at an item on a "time limited deal" earlier (it was a pretty good deal, to be fair), but noted "Only 1 left in stock".

I ummed and ahhed a bit and ordered it eventually.

It's still showing as "Only 1 left in stock", though 🤨

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Would it make sense for the fediverse to use bittorrent for sharing media? Is that how peertube works?

At the moment, each mastodon instance keeps its own copy of all the media it knows about. You can clear caches, but when someone wants to look at an old toot the server has to fetch it again.

At the moment mathstodon.xyz spends about $80/month running its media proxy. What would it look like if that was seeding torrents instead?

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I wonder how that'd work when it's about viewing a website.. it'd go into the users website cache? how would it seed from there (this could be a point of vulnerability probably), or does it just fetch from the original servers (more load on original servers that host the content in that case).

I'm not an expert on the subject, I just use the internet :D

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I believe a torrent or something similar is indeed what the "peer" in PeerTube stands for but I don't know technical details, nor whether this saves any bandwidth given the usage patterns of current PeerTube servers. Whether something similar could help with the Mastodon thundering herd type issues is an interesting question but I don't remember seeing anything about implementing that.


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"i'm here, on the severed floor of lumon. i don't know who i am or how i got here."

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🏃‍♀️ High-performance computing, with much less code

(... back in my business development days I was interested in "rules and schemes" that would separate what is to be done with how it should be done)

https://news.mit.edu/2025/high-performance-computing-with-much-less-code-0313

#computing #software #programming #languages #hpc #parallelism

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