Gary Mortimer

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Owner of sUAS News and primary school STEM teacher
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Saw the first barn swallow of the year this AM, here comes summer

I like Vanity Fair's headline:

"Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-trying-to-overturn-the-election

#Trump #Impeachment #News #Headline #VanityFair #BessLevin #Law #Crime #Spoiler #He's #Guilty #Elections #Comedy

Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Trying to Overturn the Election, Despite Us All Witnessing Him Trying to Overturn the Election

The ex-president was arraigned in a DC courthouse on Thursday.

Vanity Fair

Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Musk, et al... how do they define their success?

"I earned every dollar I inherited. I worked hard for the billions I stole."

#EatTheRich #Billionaires

@nickb333 @BBCRadio4 Closing LW is very shortsighted #Ukraine needs news
Hello everyone! πŸ‘‹ We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (31 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@joelhanlon @jomo @billt interesting story for the notpod

Hackers from TU Berlin managed to jailbreak #Tesla cars, unlocking software-locked features worth up to $15,000 πŸͺ“πŸͺ“πŸͺ“

They used a known (unpatchable) voltage fault injection attack against the AMD Secure Processor to glitch the boot process, got root, and retrieved the car's RSA private key πŸ‘Œ

https://electrek.co/2023/08/03/hackers-manage-unlock-tesla-software-locked-features/

Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features worth up to $15,000

A group of hackers have exposed an exploit that can unlock Tesla’s software-locked features worth up to $15,000. Free heated...

Electrek
When you think of Gen Z, labor unions may not be the first thing that comes to mind. Still, this young generation is responsible for the resurgence of unions in the 21st century. Take a deep dive into why at #TheBigPicture: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/usa-labor-unions-worker-rights
Past, Present And Future Of U.S. Labor Unions

What’s behind a 21st century resurgence of labor unions in the United States after the upheaval of the late 1900s.

The Big Picture

Thirteen Quick Facts About Gun Ownership in America:

1) The US has about 120 guns per 100 people.
2) No other nation on Earth has even 110 guns per 100 people.
3) Or 100 per 100 people.
4) Or 90 per 100.
5) Or 80 per 100.
6) Or 70 per 100.
7) Or 60 per 100.
8) There is one nation that has about 50 guns per 100 people.
9) That nation is Yemen.
10) Fucking YEMEN.
11) Yemen hasn't had a mass shooting since 2013's Sana'a Attack.
12) That attack was committed by armed members of al-Quaida.
13) They committed it using American guns.

I'm sure none of these facts are at all connected.