Mastodawn

After several months of umm-ing and ahh-ing, I handed in my notice at work this week.

If anyone knows of a Canadian company looking to hire a remote senior web developer who will NOT be working on LLM-related functionality (or be required to use LLM-based development tools), please point me in their direction. I've got 15 years of experience and love getting my teeth into technical problems.

Boosts most welcome. Thanks! #getfedihired

aardvark 2h ago

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Dave Rahardja 13h ago

Iran is quite literally manipulating the world’s economy in this war by commandeering a strategic part of its supply chain. Gasoline is already expensive and in short supply. In a few weeks, everything from fertilizer to silicon chip manufacturing must ramp down. Then, food prices will rise everywhere due to fertilizer and transportation costs. And they’re making it clear that the US and Israel are to blame.

They are so good at this game.

And can we talk about how good their drones and missiles seem to be? There is plenty of footage floating around now that show these craft evading the Iron Dome interceptors. I wonder if both the US and Israel were surprised by just how sophisticated Iran’s (cheap) missiles are and how many of them have penetrated the (expensive) defense systems.

#iran #iranWar

aardvark 21h ago

Dave Rahardja 23h ago

Hey #California, the third-place-polling #Republican governor candidate Sheriff Chad Bianco has just seized 650,000 ballots from Riverside County, under the pretense of a “fact-finding mission” to see if some kind of crime has been committed during the Prop 50 vote—the one that asserts that California can use an older district map for the 2028 map. He did this despite AG Rob Bonta and Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s assertion that his actions were “outside the law”, and despite the fact that Prop 50 passed by a whopping 64%, and that this investigation will do nothing to change its outcome.

Bianco apparently got a judge to sign off on a search warrant, but the article doesn’t say who it was that signed it.

Bianco is a hard-right Trumper, and a frequent proponent of the kinds of voter-fraud conspiracies that drive the far right. He’s showing that he will use the Sheriff’s office to sow chaos in California to help Trump.

He must be defeated at the polls.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/chad-bianco-ballots-22090730.php

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aardvark 1d ago

Brent Toderian 1d ago

READ: “You can’t have good urban design if you prioritize the car; you have to give priority to people.” I gave a VERY comprehensive interview to @[email protected] for #PapelPeriodico in Bogotá a few years back, published in Spanish. Sharing it again today since it’s still very relevant.

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Chris Espinosa 1d ago

We have known for a while that there is no bottom. It’s been increasingly clear since January 2025 that there are no guardrails. And with the last social post it should be abundantly clear that there is no filter. It’s direct from id to action.

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Chris Espinosa 1d ago

RE: https://c.im/@NBC/116273350073241323

bullwinkle that trick never works

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evacide 1d ago

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/journalist-security-checklist-preparing-devices-travel-through-us-border

A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border

We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting materials or source contact information. It’s important to think about your strategy in advance, and begin planning which options in this checklist make sense for you.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Eric A. Meyer 1d ago

Good of them to provide templates for their own obits, am I right?

aardvark 3d ago

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Stefan Bohacek 3d ago

Oh and apparently it's also Fred Rogers' birthday. Nice fella.

> And this is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child to help him realize that he is unique.
>
> I end the program by saying, "You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you and I like you just the way you are."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers

#MrRogers #FredRogers #birthday

May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children's television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (named Misterogers' ...

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AI6YR Ben 3d ago

@aardvark @tsturm Mistyped that, lol