Moving to the right failed big in the last election, so the Democratic party has decided to move even farther to the right.
America is where it is because Americans are stupid.
France showed the way to defeat the far-right: move to the left, so we can only conclude that Democrats are deliberately trying to lose.
"I think for the first time in 90 years, we’re going to see an interruption of #SocialSecurity benefits. I hope it doesn't happen, but I believe it will. You're going to see wait times skyrocket.”
-M O’Malley -fmr SS COMR
He said the current admin’s efforts to shrink the WF will send away essential personnel & jeopardize the agency’s most basic functions.
>73M ppl, incl. 56M seniors, rely on the #SSA for monthly benefit checks.
#USPol #DOGE #Musk #Trump #Coup #Resist
huffpost.com/entry/social-secu…
Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley Says DOGE Cuts Could Interrupt Benefits
Donald Trump's purge of the federal workforce could cause a system failure at the Social Security Administration, the agency's former leader warned.Arthur Delaney (HuffPost)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=wVaDvV5H…
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.m.youtube.com
Incredible statement from the American Meteorological Organization. It takes a lot for a scientific organization to issue a statement like this:
"U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather...Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States’ global leadership."
Full statement here: ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-…
R.I.P. James Harrison, Australian hero, whose blood contained a rare antibody used to create medication to protect babies from a rare blood disorder. Having the antibody was just luck. What made him a hero was donating plasma every two weeks without missing one appointment for 60+ years. There's power in just reliably showing up for other people who need what only you can give them.
bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe6…
James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
PSA: Do not have “measles parties.”
arstechnica.com/health/2025/02… #health #science
Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing
Twenty people have been hospitalized. Most cases are in children.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
Nubes digitales: estudio revela el catastrófico impacto ambiental de los centros de datos.
El informe “Detrás de las Nubes” desarrollado por el Grupo ETC, arroja cifras alarmantes en relación a este tema.
"Debemos exigir mayor responsabilidad a las grandes empresas tecnológicas para evitar la profundización de la actual crisis climática”
Demasiada ingenuidad... 😔
creo, reitero el creo, es que ni siquiera es una forma de lucha, sobre todo cuando escucho a tanto político recomendando precisamente eso, exigir. Pero tal vez algo ha cambiado en 30 años y ahora "exigir" tiene otra fuerza que desconozco, ya estoy viejo y tal vez este todo anacrónico.
Sabiendo lo seria que es su lucha, si me dices el "como", me sumo con tal de restar algo de poder a la #gmafia, sobre todo, los indicadores que nos digan que essta "exigencia" esta funcionando. No tengo nada que recomendar, salvo lo que hacemos cuatro gatos, dejar de usar los servicios de la #gmafia. Pero para mi, es una batalla perdida.
bueno, a veces pasa, no al 100% como nos gustaría, pero en Brasil se ha avanzado contra las bigtech y su abuso a la privacidad, o en Europa la Reglamento General de Protección de Datos (RGPD)... son años de exigencias desde los movimientos de derechos digitales
Scarlet Hollow - The Roads Untraveled update out now, first episode free in the demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/scar…
#ScarletHollow #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck
Scarlet Hollow - The Roads Untraveled update out now, first episode free in the demo
Scarlet Hollow is an award-winning gothic horror narrative adventure developed by Black Tabby Games (who also made Slay the Princess). Now it's better than ever with a soft relaunch with The Roads Untraveled update out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Secret Mode splits from Sumo Group (Tencent) to be an independent publisher gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/secr…
Secret Mode splits from Sumo Group (Tencent) to be an independent publisher
Secret Mode is a name some of you may know from publishing titles like Wobbledogs, Still Wakes the Deep, Eternal Threads and more have announced a split from Sumo Group (Tencent).Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The MechLock wall mount for Steam Deck looks ridiculously slick gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-…
The MechLock wall mount for Steam Deck looks ridiculously slick
If you want to mount your Steam Deck to a wall, you could do so with something like the Deckmate but the MechLock looks far slicker with the super-smooth locking system where you can add a charger.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Level up your Kodi game with these fantastic add-ons!
itsfoss.com/best-kodi-add-ons/
Best Kodi Add-ons I Use to Enhance My Media Server Experience
Take your Kodi set up to the next level and add more features to it with these add-ons.Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)
Mastodon has a serious spam problem which challenges my use of this platform.
Every day a person is creating new spam accounts to pollute the replies to my posts with Kremlin propaganda. Then when I block these accounts, the person creates new accounts and continues.
It is 13:00 and I have taken down 4 accounts already, and now more will be created.
@Gargron @renchap it is a pattern:
1. Random account created
2. Hits follow on my account
3. Replies with propaganda
4. Is blocked.
5. GOTO 1
thank you. I have now set it to "filter".
I really wish, Mastodon took advantage of their pattern of following the same political accounts, because I do not think this is normal behavior.
I reckon, normal accounts discover accounts to follow organically. But this spammer creates his account, then immediately hits follow on my account and a few others.
While that is a short-term solution, the rest of us will still see these comments and they have the potential to derail conversation or scare people off.
I hope it's possible to implement some sort of check on account behavior, maybe auto-flagging them for admins. If they display behaviour which isn't human-like and are not marked as a bot account, perhaps.
Just brainstorming here, but it might be worth looking into as mastodon continues to grow.
Easy to automate.
Congratulations to Gints Zilbalodis and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win!
Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide.
Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d
Bored? Check out the Museum of All Things and dive into Wikipedia in 3D gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/bore…
Bored? Check out the Museum of All Things and dive into Wikipedia in 3D
Here's a really clever idea. The Museum of All Things is a free to download experience made in Godot that allows you to explore various subjects pulled from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons data.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Internxt Drive is now the first cloud storage with post-quantum encryption. 🔒
news.itsfoss.com/internxt-driv…
Internxt Drive Becomes First Cloud Storage with Post-Quantum Encryption
Future-proof your cloud data storageAbhishek (It's FOSS News)
R.E.P.O. is a new co-op horror game with silly physics currently exploding on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/r-e-…
#REPO #Gaming #COOP #Horror #Linux #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck
R.E.P.O. is a new co-op horror game with silly physics currently exploding on Steam
With a Steam image of a stupid smiley face that made me initially ignore it when seeing it (the kind I would expect from some basic cheapo game), R.E.P.O. is actually pretty darn amusing and it's rocketing up the charts on Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
No support for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Steam Deck at launch gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/no-s…
#SteamDeck #AssassinsCreedShadows #Proton #Linux
No support for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Steam Deck at launch
One from earlier in February I missed was a Q&A post from Ubisoft about Assassin's Creed Shadows, and it's bad news for players hoping to run it on Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
How to set Nextcloud Hub for a mission-critical deployment and scale it for millions?
Learn in our webinar "Getting started with Nextcloud Enterprise" this Wednesday!
📆 Wednesday, March 5
🕒 3:00 pm (CET) / 9:00 am (EST)
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nextcloud.com/blog/event/getti…
[Webinar] Getting started with Nextcloud Enterprise
In this webinar, you will learn about Nextcloud Enterprise platform, its advantages, deployment options, and questions answered by an expert.Nextcloud
EchoPatch mod is a great way to modernise the classic shooter FEAR gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/echo…
#FEAR #FPS #LinuxGaming #Modding #PCGaming
EchoPatch mod is a great way to modernise the classic shooter FEAR
With the news recently about Monolith Productions closing, perhaps you might be wanting to jump back into the classic shooter FEAR (stylised as F.E.A.R.). Here's a mod to make the experience better.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Sonic Unleashed gets a full fan-made PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/soni…
#SonicUnleashed #Sonic #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck
Sonic Unleashed gets a full fan-made PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support
Sonic Unleashed from the Xbox 360 has made its way onto PC, although not by SEGA. This is a fan-made port created through the process of static recompilation.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GOverlay app to help you configure the MangoHud overlay v1.3 released gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/gove…
#Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming
GOverlay app to help you configure the MangoHud overlay v1.3 released
GOverlay can help you set up the performance display MangoHud with buttons and checkboxes, instead of needing to edit a config file. A new v1.3 was released making it portable.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Think you’ve got all the tools? This office suite might surprise you! 📄
itsfoss.com/onlyoffice-feature…
Surprisingly, Many Linux Users Don't Know About This Office Suite
Do you know about ONLYOFFICE? We tell you more about it here.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
I love this. People often complain about MS Office compatibility and no-one knows OnlyOffice which is great for that.
It has a similar interface, has better support for MS Office documents and supports cloud collaboration (yes I know about Collabora but that is in browser only). Unless you're doing something really complex it will do you just fine. I even install it on Windows for people that don't want to pay the subscription.
Aren't Australians clever!
For the 1st time in Canada, surgeons put teeth in patients' eyes to restore sight
(yes, I know it says "Canada", but the method was developed in Australia)
like this
I'm still waiting to see a movement to make it legal to jailbreak US tech in response to US tariffs, as @pluralistic has been recommending.
Are there signs our gov is listening?
Ursula Franklin Lecture:
With Great Power Came No Responsibility, 2025-Feb-24
pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/urs…
vimeo.com/1059798497
2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture: Cory Doctorow
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow presents the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture.Vimeo
"Canada could become a tech export powerhouse, while making everything cheaper for Canadian tech users, while making everything more profitable for anyone who sells media or software in an online store. And – this is the best part – it’s a frontal assault on the largest, most profitable US companies, the companies that are single-handedly keeping the S&P 500 in the black, striking directly at their most profitable lines of business [...]"
"We don't have to stop at exporting reasonably priced pharmaceuticals to Americans! We could export the extremely lucrative tools of technological liberation to our American friends, too.
"That's how you win a trade-war."
Sen. Bernie Sanders, speaking on Sunday's "Meet the Press," argued the cash crunch would end if Congress repealed the Social Security tax cap:
U.S. taxpayers only pay Social Security taxes on the first $176,100 of their annual wages.
He said that means the ultrawealthy like Musk pay the same amount into the program "as a truck driver."
nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/vid…
usatoday.com/story/news/politi…
Elon Musk calls Social Security a 'Ponzi scheme,' sparking Dem concerns over key benefit
The world's richest man argued that the retirement and disability benefit system poses a significant financial risk to America's future.Davis Winkie (USA TODAY)
I don't know what the Trump/Musk wreckers are doing to the NIH systems of online information and research, but lots of people want to know.
PubMed, Cancer.gov failing (and reappearing, broken sites, graphics wrong}
Websites keep failing, DNS records arent resolving....
#NIH #WormBrain #RFKjr #trump #musk #Fascism
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dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/2/…
The United States is actively under attack. NIH, NLM, NCI have all been taken offline
The National Institutes of Health (nih.gov), the National Library of Medicine (nlm.nih.gov), the clinical center (cc.nih.gov) and the National Cancer Institute (cancer.gov) ** have all been taken offline. Trying to connect generates a “server not...Daily Kos
The headline in the second image casts light on the headline in the first image.
If you're in America, you are likely only seeing the first headline.
EA has open sourced some of its games.
news.itsfoss.com/ea-open-sourc…
Unbelievable! EA Open Sources 4 Command & Conquer Games
Yep, you read the title right, Electronic Arts, aka EA, has open sourced some of its games.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
The richest man in the world has gotten IRS to fire the people investigating the richest men in the world for tax fraud and instead gotten them to look for fraud among people poor enough to rely on (non-DOD/IC contract) govt benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Kaizen: A Factory Story announced from former Zachtronics developers gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/kaiz…
#PCGaming #KaizenAFactoryStory #IndieGames #Gaming
Kaizen: A Factory Story announced from former Zachtronics developers
Coincidence, which includes a bunch of former Zachtronics developers, have announced the open-ended puzzle automation game Kaizen: A Factory Story.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I try to be more of a person (rather than just a brand) here on Mastodon, but sometimes it's hard.
Like, the world is falling apart in eight different ways, but also, I need to say "Here is a video about language in the Oscars." It makes me feel crazy.
But anyway, here is a video about AI & language in the Oscars. The event is tonight, and someone on my team went to the work of making the video, and the guest gave his time, so I should share it. Also, it's really good.
Steam hits a another all-time user record with over 40 million online gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…
Steam hits a another all-time user record with over 40 million online
Over the weekend Steam managed to break yet another concurrent online user record, smashing the previous that was set back in December 2024.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/hero…
#HeroicGamesLauncher #GOG #Epic #Amazon #Linux #SteamDeck
Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility
Heroic Games Launcher continues to evolve into an even more impressive cross-platform game launcher for GOG, Epic Games, Amazon Prime and more with v2.16 bringing some great enhancements.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam sees a big rise in Simplified Chinese for February 2025 bringing Linux down below 2% gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…
#Steam #Linux #Windows #macOS #PCGaming #Gaming
Steam sees a big rise in Simplified Chinese for February 2025 bringing Linux down below 2%
Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey numbers for February 2025, and there's a pretty massive increase in Simplified Chinese as language which has pushed about all the numbers everywhere else.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Graph shows extents from National Snow and Ice Data Center over past two Antarctic summers compared to longer term average.
A decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent will result in this Spring bloom occurring earlier and further south, with uncertain ecological consequences.
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-021…
doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2869-201…
Antarctic ice shelf disintegration triggered by sea ice loss and ocean swell - Nature
Less sea ice allowed ocean swells to flex weakened ice shelves in Antarctica, contributing to their collapse.Nature
Jesuitical: A podcast for young Catholics
Jesuitical is a podcast from America Media hosted by two young, hip and lay editors: Ashley McKinless and Zac Davis.America Magazine
elilla&, famigerada sapata travesti
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaaw4l9P…
at 1:40-, it's easy to see when the interpreter fingerspells sub. Marcos but I'm not able to parse which sign she's using for "zapatismo" immediately after. it doesn't help that the dang video keeps cutting away the interpreter lol
- YouTube
m.youtube.comelilla&, famigerada sapata travesti
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