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Here is a clip from my appearance on CNN last night about Jimmy Kimmel. I put the elephant on the table: the miniMurdochs, the Ellisons, buying CNN to do to it what they're doing to CBS -- turning each into propaganda outlets for Trump. All media become MAGAmedia.

Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue

Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?

The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder

#hurricanes #weather #wx #satellites

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

: Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

The Register

TOMORROW, on Presidents' Day, "Not My President" protests in every US state. Look online to find yours. I'll be there!

(Not enough people know about these protests, so please boost/repost freely. Thx.)

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data

EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sending comforting kitten vibes wherever they're needed. #Caturday. #CatsOfMastodon
Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

The annoying nerds who said you should install Linux, use decentralised social media, use Signal secure messenger were right.

Control of our own computing is a prerequisite for freedom.

The internet *is* real life.

Frequency of visits to Chicago *intensifies*

I'm still a good 70 miles away from the St. Paul train station, though...
#MNastodon

Amtrak’s new route between St. Paul and Chicago will start this month | MPR News

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/01/amtraks-new-route-between-st-paul-and-chicago-will-start-this-month

Amtrak’s new route between St. Paul and Chicago will start this month

The new route, called the Amtrak Borealis, will run between the two cities via Milwaukee.

MPR News

A VM vending machine at #SCaLE21x! You put in a dollar, select your distro, and it creates a VM you can ssh into.

Edit: @dualdflipflop was behind this. Give him a follow.

#Linux

~ When your social battery runs down.