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First year in a long time I'm not going to DEF CON this year. What about you? #defcon

	🟢 I'm going
	🟡 I'm not going, but wish I was
	🔴 I don't want to go, and will not go
	🔵 What's DEF CON?

Poll ends at Jul 31 at 4:46pm.

Chuck Darwin 4d ago

On Wednesday, Trey Parker and Matt Stone
– the creators of the satirical show South Park
– announced they had struck a $1.5 billion, five-year streaming rights deal with Paramount Global.

On Wednesday night, Parker and Stone's long delayed season debut
on Paramount's Comedy Central channel
torched the company for cancelling the CBS Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- implying that it was done solely to appease one of Colbert's frequent targets: President Trump.
(A cartoon Trump is shown naked in bed with Satan. It is not an appealing depiction. Nor was it intended to be.)
Paramount Global has said Colbert's cancellation, effective next June, was done solely for financial reasons.
It has nonetheless occurred amid a flurry of concrete actions taken by Paramount and the Ellison family, to appease the Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5477530/paramount-cbs-skydance-sale-fcc-approves

She rode home in the car, under the hood.

Are fruit snacks technically candy, not a snack?

Very important, definitely science here.

(the gummy kind shapes like fruit pieces, typically transparent and artificially flavored)

🍭 Yes, they are candy

82.1%

🍎 No, they are not candy

17.9%

Poll ended at Jul 25 at 9:15pm.

Jack and Tuna cannot with Mondays

#dogsofmastodon

Thomas Fuglseth Jul 12

Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The rise of Whatever

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Examples of things that people with average computer literacy can “just” do:

- just reboot it

- just email it to yourself [unless it’s over 25MB or contains an executable in which case you’re not gonna “just” anything]

- just use an iPhone instead

Examples of things people with average computer literacy absolutely cannot “just” do:

- just use Linux

- just run your own email server

- just replace this polished, slick-onboarding but expensive software with a foss alternative but make sure you use this fork because the official one had some drama and it’s kind of poorly maintained and also just simply be someone who doesn’t need accessibility features or just implement the accessibility features yourself in a special dialect of C++ that just needs a particular build of gcc from 1997 available on an ftp server that only appears during the Witching Hour on a new moon

- just use a VPN, one that’s not a privacy-violating scam I mean

- just set up a separate media server and torrent all your shows and connect all the kids’ devices to it and just don’t catch a virus or get scary legal threats in the mail doing this

- just refrain from decking your smug “helpful” computer-literate cousin in the face

Leftist Lawyer Jul 2

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Peter Gleick Jun 30

Trump has deleted the entire US Global Change Research Program website -- a research program required by federal law.
I know many people have downloaded and preserved documents from that website in recent days. The problem is bigger though: the entire future research effort has been cancelled. Existing documents can be saved. End future research blinds the public and policymakers to current and future risks to the country and public health.

Nicole Parsons Jun 30

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"If we make people pretend that climate destruction isn't real, we can keep frying the planet."

Project 2025 is funded by climate denying fossil fuel interests.

They paid $445 million dollars to keep playing pretend with climate change.

An industry that that has made $3 billion dollars PER DAY in profit for the last 50 years is determined to keep doing that, no matter the consequences.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/trump-fossil-fuel-donors-data-centers

Trump to Big Oil Execs: Give Me $1 Billion and I'll Help You Wreck the Planet | Common Dreams

"You won't read a more important story today," said one commentator. "Trump is willing to literally destroy the planet for $1 billion."

Common Dreams

Steve of Mastodon Jul 1

@Npars01 @petergleick The comment "If we make people pretend that climate destruction isn't real, we can keep frying the planet" strongly reminds that this head-in-sand worldview is mainstream. Examples. 1/ Bush neo-cons in Iraq - reality on the ground doesn't matter, they'll write the history (Naomi Klein). trump's @secdef & @StateDep - stridently asserting ideology is more than adequate compared to the intel (Alastair Crooke & Scott Ritter).

@Npars01 @petergleick
RE
#Project2025 is funded by #climatedenying #fossilfuel interests

Well, that's so #MAGA

@digyoursoul
RE
#Asia Warming at Twice the Global Average

@j_g_fitzgerald Thx 4 orig boost

#GlobalWarming
Asia is warming faster than the rest of the world, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

https://www.ecowatch.com/asia-warming-rate-wmo-climate-change.html

bouriquet Jun 30

@petergleick I hate to admit it but if only the Florida palace were overwashed by hurricane storm surge not forecast by a reduced NHC, struck by lightning in a severe thunderstorm and then broiled in a heat wave.
And not enough construction labor available anymore to pick up the pieces and put it back together after the insurance company refuses to pay as well as a nonexistent FEMA.
FAFO.

gizmonicus Jun 30

@petergleick Trump IS the biggest threat to the country and public health at this point. Climate change is incredibly important, but until we have someone in government who actually is willing (and competent enough) to tackle it, we're just pissing into the wind.

Not saying it's OK that the clown show Trump administration keeps fucking over needed programs. It's just hard to imagine making any progress at all until you find a way to kill Trumpism.

@gizmonicus @petergleick

There is no national coordinated leadership among DEMS and independents who oppose Trumpian policies.

Headless resistance movement.....

gizmonicus Jul 1

@yuhasz01 @petergleick maybe they'll write a strongly worded statement 🙄

ArchaeoIain Jun 30

@petergleick horrifying.

@petergleick yes, you're in a fascist dictatorship. This is just a bump in the road to where we all know it's heading.

Trump didn't need an enabling act, he has SCOTUS, and a political system designed from the start to copy a king with royal court, masquerading as president and their cabinet

@petergleick Thankfully, The Internet Archive has it

blobcatmeltlove

https://web.archive.org/web/20250629071618/https://globalchange.gov/

U.S. Global Change Research Program | GlobalChange.gov

Violette - K.I.S.S Jun 30

@petergleick i heard so much fucking T criminal bullshit. It s unbelievable. I think i was prepared to this kind of bullshit but it always go more fare than i ve expected.
In France it s shitty too but well, what a shit is this fucking T.

sandywb14 Jun 30

@petergleick 😡 He’s just so stupid, carelessly and cluelessly.

@petergleick Supreme court just barred all other judges from calling Trump out on very obvious law breaking. So you can expect the US to turn into the V for Vendetta scenario (No, not the fun part with a masked vigilante but the leper colony)

Steve of Mastodon Jul 1

@petergleick Most know that in Australia, before 2022 federal election, left-wing opp leader Anthony Albanese spoke moderately against #globalwarming. Post election, Prime Minister Albanese was handed a #climate oriented national security report; b/c of 2019-20 fires, public expectation was bad news. The report was disappeared. Since then right-wing @AlboMP has proven his fossil fuel industry loyalty. Public understanding is he thinks carbon investment is required before divestment & renewables.

Luna chan Jul 1

@petergleick What a turd of an administration.

SubductionRheology Jul 1

@petergleick What was on the website? Did it have downloadable scientific papers? If so, written by government scientists or academic researchers? Explainers for general consumption? A bibliography of global climate change work? Or all of the above.

Das_blaue_Pony Jul 1

@petergleick ich glaube nicht das er das persönlich war, der ist doch zu doof das er sein eigenen Namen richtig schreibt. Deshalb finde ich solche Berichterstattung die ihm Fähigkeit zuschreibt die er nicht hat, kritisch.

@petergleick This is only part of his aim to kill off as many Americans he thinks will be useless, oppose him and/or cost him money when in his mind he becomes Dictator Donnie.