Notices by Obot 50549535 (obot50549535@left-tusk.com)

@RickiTarr I think he means "return to prison," since he has previous done time.

@arstechnica Just a reminder that this movie was written, produced, directed, and starring boomers.

You're welcome.

Will Bunch in the Inquirer:
'Andrea Pitzer literally wrote the book on concentration camps, and she now says that the Trump regime’s detention sites like the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” are exactly that: holding large numbers of people, tied to their identity and lacking in due process, and in increasingly squalid conditions.'

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/us-concentration-camps-florida-trump-20250724.html

@br00t4c Interesting article, but calling this "Pearl Harbor" is just bizarre. Ukraine is defending itself against unprovoked Russian aggression; in Pearl Harbor the unprovoked aggression was Japan's attack. And I haven't seen casualty numbers for the Ukraine attack, but the Pearl Harbor casualties were huge.

Cory Booker speaking on the floor of the Senate.

"I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.

"I rise tonight because our nation is in crisis: Bedrock commitments are being broken; Unnecessary hardship is being borne by Americans of all backgrounds; Our institutions are being recklessly and unconstitutionally attacked and even shattered."

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/31/sen-booker-takes-over-senate-with-marathon-speech-to-protest-trump/82750914007/

@br00t4c The slashdot story links to a CNN story, that contains this quote:

"But the path toward it is unlikely to be smooth, not least because the technology has not yet been proved viable."

@br00t4c Was Woody Guthrie country music? Because he was sure as hell one of the most woke musicians ever.

@br00t4c
Interesting that he likes to use the phrase "states' rights" in this context, since to anyone who has been in history class in the US will immediately associate that phrase with slavery.

@evan
I think "2101 or later" would include "never."

@q3k are you supposed to wire bond it? Or are those surface mount pads?

@br00t4c
So it just happens that I obsessively follow the price of Trump Media, for no reason I can understand -- and over the last 3 months it has ranged between 23 and 65. I do not have any idea why. But given that range, 4% is pretty small. In fact I kind of thought it might surge after the debate, but no.

@br00t4c
"I hear you're free on Wednesdays" oh my God I'm dying

"Strong solar storm could disrupt communications and produce northern lights in US"
https://apnews.com/article/solar-storm-flares-eruption-sun-fc23251025efc2d20dc128dc0b6a7c68

@br00t4c
I would not like to see AM radio go away.
I also never, ever listen to AM radio.
I am struggling to reconcile these two thoughts.

@HistoPol @philip_cardella @GottaLaff
Brave new world and animal farm?

@cstross Young folks today may not be aware that a lot of scifi in the 50s and 60s was pretty fascist.

To the point that in 1972 Norman Spinrad wrote a metafictional novel The Iron Dream, a scifi novel as written by Adolf Hitler. You read it and say, yup, fits right in with Burroughs/Heinlein etc, and sounds just like Hitler.

@mcc The exception that keeps biting me is that USB (OLD) that is type B, if it's blue inside it can't plug in to a socket that isn't blue inside. They are physically incompatible.

@lowqualityfacts
Parenting tip: If you want your kid to not do something, don't make it sound very cool and intriguing.