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Len Whitten Feb 11, 2025

Michael Busch Feb 6, 2025

Here in #Minnesota, our weather forecasts work because NOAA and Environment Canada have agreements to share data from the weather services' sensor networks back and forth across the line.

Yet again, USA:

End this. Hold Elon Musk personally accountable. And #ImpeachTrump and remove him.

QT Tim Marchman
‪@timmarchman.bsky.social‬
2025 February 5

NOAA workers ordered to stop all communications with foreign nationals.

https://www.wired.com/story/noaa-employees-foreign-nationals/

https://bsky.app/profile/timmarchman.bsky.social/post/3lhhueqltd22z

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

WIRED

Len Whitten Feb 9, 2025

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Dan Hon Feb 5, 2025

28/ What I know is what I said up top: tech does what you tell it to do. If there's *no one to tell you to stop*, and *you don't care either way*, all bets are off.

You have someone in charge who unplugs shit and doesn't care, and an administration *on record* that wants to break things.

Len Whitten Jan 30, 2025

I have Trans friends, and I have Trump-loving acquaintances.
Guess which group I'd rather be around?
(Hint: not the bigoted hateful uninformed one)

Len Whitten Jan 30, 2025

Our wind-up clock is running slow. DEI?

Len Whitten Jan 27, 2025

Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░Jan 25, 2025

Damn. 😳

Len Whitten Jan 25, 2025

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Thomas Zimmer Jan 19, 2025

We must resist the temptation to perpetuate Trump’s constant attempts to assert dominance by reflexively despairing over our supposedly hopeless situation. MAGA desires to project power and strength – something we should subvert rather than confirm. Let’s not indulge the false bravado.

Len Whitten Jan 10, 2025

I will never comprehend how 50% of a country can remotely consider that this chaos and absurdity helps their lives even one little tiny bit. https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113794231338268085

Sue Stone (@[email protected])

‘Mexican America’: President of Mexico trolls Trump with vintage map - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/mexican-america-president-of-mexico-trolls-trump-with-vintage-map/

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Len Whitten Jan 2, 2025

Steve Herman Jan 2, 2025

The US vice president-elect states that the "American media slanders" Germany's far-right AfD "as Nazi-lite."

Len Whitten Dec 30, 2024

Ciara Dec 30, 2024

That older relative you do tech support for is probably not bamboozled by digital devices. They were guessing their way through Y/N ms-DOS and dodging Fatal Error cartoon bombs on Macs before you and the smartphone were born. Now they're older, wearier, and exasperated by digital coercion and the complication of simple things. They’re not listening to Bing Crosby while being amazed email exists. They’re listening to Queen while cursing enshittification & resenting the time it costs them and you.

Len Whitten Dec 26, 2024

James Gleick Dec 24, 2024

Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.

It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

Newsweek