Andrew Plumb 🇨🇦

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E.Eng, EDA/CAD hacker, VE3SLG, bassist, violist, 3dprinting, RepRap, Open Source bits & atoms, dabbler in everything.
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Looks like it’s no longer safe for even large corporations to do business in the US. ICE has just disappeared 475 people into their concentration camp system:

https://apnews.com/article/us-south-korea-ice-raid-georgia-hyundai-9394482c195664d7cc3db67ae998ac05

Never mind the outdoor air quality, indoors my AirGradient ONE is hitting sustained highs in the 65-85 PM2.5 (ug/m^3) today. Highest by far in over a year!

#openhardware #opensource #airgradient #airgradientone

Out with the old Kinesis Freestyle2.
In with the new #UltimateHackingKeyboard #UHK80.

Article: There’s a new dress code in Trump’s Washington, and it’s straight out of a dictator’s playbook. Loyalists in the regime—congressmen, senators, the whole parade of sycophants—are now sporting golden Trump bust lapel pins, a garish little tribute to the man who’s turned the White House into a shrine to himself.

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/trump-is-now-mandating-his-cabinetloyalist

Trump Is Now Mandating His Cabinet/Loyalist Wear "Trump Golden Bust" Pins

The Golden Trump Ego Age Marches On

Dean Blundell

A nice summary of what the US currently looks like and the direction it’s headed, to those of us on the outside c/o @pluralistic

Read Article “End-stage capitalism“ by Cory Doctorow on Medium: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-04-04-anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops-6640f7acb74d

End-stage capitalism - Cory Doctorow - Medium

I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in BLOOMINGTON TODAY (Apr 4), first at the Ostrom Center, then at The Mill. More tour stops here. Karl Marx predicted that…

Medium

With friends like these…

https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Hegseth's detailed attack plans against Houthis

The Atlantic posts Signal chat with attack plans from Hegseth

The Atlantic has released the Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials. It shows that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact times of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen's Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne. The disclosure follows two intense days during which Trump’s senior most Cabinet members of his intelligence and defense agencies have struggled to explain how details that current and former U.S. officials have said would have been classified wound up on an unclassified Signal chat. That chat included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

AP News

Heads-up to everyone here in Ontario eligible to vote next week. I completely missed the fact that we had to register to vote by last week; it doesn’t automagically happen this time around.

#ElectionsOntario #OntarioVotes

Minimal alt text on these photos (they’re of the mailer and a screen-capture of the in-person ID requirements); go to the website for the full details:

https://www.elections.on.ca/

Home

Welcome to Elections Ontario

Finally getting around to setting up my little #mntpocketreform now that the post-holidays have settled down.
Will future archaeological excavations identify year 2023 AD strata by the Dilbert Shwag Demarcation Line.?. 🤔