Notices by John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 (johnlogic@sfba.social)

There should be an annual sewing convention, and it should be held this month so it could be called May Hem.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@Geri/116443575218168983

"Watch as veterans protesting war with Iran detained in Capitol rotunda

Capitol Police detained a group of nearly 120 veterans protesting the war with Iran at the Capitol building."

by Ariana Triggs
April 20, 2026, 1:16 p.m. ET

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2026/04/20/capitol-police-detain-dozens-of-veterans-protesting-iran-war/89702514007/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@michaelmagras/116439663404400457

"We Could Do Worse Than Kash Patel Being a Drunken Buffoon

If the FBI director’s alleged intoxication prevents him from carrying out Trump’s agenda, that might not be such a bad thing."

by Jeet Heer
April 20, 2026

Link around paywall to The Nation:

https://archive.ph/MAk5c

#uspol #WhatDoYouWithADrunkenFBIDirector

"NASA Sends a 'Pspsps' to Cat Watching Artemis II and People Can’t Get Enough"

By Russel Moneva
April 17, 2026

https://iheartcats.com/nasa-sends-a-pspsps-to-cat-watching-artemis-ii-and-people-cant-get-enough/

@heidilifeldman

I'd sure like to know why this doesn't violate the Posse Comitatus Act, and why the Act isn't used to stop this.

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

"4 astronauts are set to launch on Artemis II, the first crewed moon mission in decades"

Updated 4:53 PM EDT, Wed April 1, 2026

"NASA’s Artemis II mission: Four astronauts are now inside the spacecraft as they get ready to journey around the moon. Liftoff is expected at 6:24 p.m. ET today from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/science/live-news/artemis-2-nasa-launch

#Artemis2

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757

I've learned to expect a certain level of quality from Microsoft.

Frankly, I'm a little surprised this isn't worse...

@gemlog @theicarian @peterbrown

"On November 25, 2024, at the age of 39, she was found dead on the rooftop terrace of her home in Marseille. An investigation was opened, but foul play appeared to be ruled out. The profession paid her unanimous tribute"

Translated from French by Google from

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Vlahovic

(sources linked inline)

@Netraven @skinnylatte

I read that new-to-state applicants would start at the bottom of the pay range, so I infer that they would be accepted for this role.

Though this is described as an "expert level" position, in my location that pay rate isn't even a living wage, and waiting tables pays better.

@jeridansky @ai6yr

Link around paywall:

"A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a 'third-party operator.'"

By Eric Niiler
Reporting from Washington
Feb. 13, 2026, 3:37 p.m. ET

https://archive.ph/7uf1I

The 2020s version of the USA is just an amateur remake of the 1930s version of Germany.

#uspol

Fediverse friends, can you help me out?

I've been an independent contractor for a long time. Now that my salesperson is retiring, I'm looking for work, and open to contract work or regular employment (i.e. "get a real job") in or near Sunnyvale, CA.

I have degrees in computer science and management, usually develop systems of electronic circuits and software, and have been the principal engineer for a startup that grew to about 170, and a project's principal hardware engineer within a company of about 130,000.

Lately I've been getting highly motivated to find work, and open to nearly anything that offers at least a living wage.

I think that I might be doing something wrong with my resume.

If you are so inclined, would you please have a look at my resume (here in HTML, with contact info redacted) and perhaps offer a critique? Please feel free to message privately.

Thanks

https://www.syncopate.us/resumes/carlsen

#FediHire

RE: https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/115985659052873917

Proud to be a Dutch American especially right now...

@aral CW please

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/115845224322306161

Goodbye Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1967-2026

Thanks to CPB, I grew up with Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

The last 60 years of US history have been like the eventual boring denouement of every game of Monopoly, when one player hoards all the wealth and the others are left bankrupt and just waiting for it to end.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115794837755181979

Google's choices show what kind of a company it is. It may not always have been this bad, but it is now.

I make choices too, like not working for Google and incrementally reducing Google's presence in my life by replacing Google apps on my phone (a Fairphone 4) with DuckDuckGo, Open Street Maps, etc.

I'm highly motivated to find work soon. Can you help?

I'm open to contracting or regular employment in or near Sunnyvale CA, ideally developing systems of circuits and/or software, including programmable logic (FPGAs etc.) and embedded through application software. I have degrees in computer science, business administration and management, and technical communication.

Ideally I'd like to stay at a level around "senior member of technical staff" for an employer that isn't evil incarnate, using more FOSS/Linux than Microsoft, but I'm quickly getting less picky.

#FediHire #JobSearch

Imagine a company with Microsoft's reputation for "quality" operating nuclear reactors (on Three Mile Island, of all places).

That brings a whole new meaning to the "blue screen of death".

"Sorry, your critical safety system has experienced and must shut down. Please stand by while your nuclear core melts down and starts heading toward China."

Nearly a year ago:

"Deep Atomic launches SMR for data centres"

Friday, 25 October 2024

"...
Microsoft announced in September it had signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Constellation that will see Three Mile Island unit 1 restarted. Google announced last week it had agreed to purchase energy from Kairos Power under a deal that would support the first commercial deployment of its fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature advanced small modular reactors by 2030 and aim for a fleet totalling 500 MW of capacity by 2035. The following day, Amazon announced a series of agreements that will see it taking a stake in advanced nuclear reactor developer X-energy and rolling out its Xe-100 advanced SMR initially at a project in Washington State.

Meanwhile, the head of Japanese cloud-based gaming services provider Ubitus KK has said it is planning to construct a new data centre and is specifically looking at areas with nearby nuclear power plants to provide the required power."

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/deep-atomic-launches-smr-for-data-centres