Notices by Paul Chambers🚧 (paul@oldfriends.live)

This guy woke up, got email he was fired and by 3:45pm locked out of everything digital,

He writes, "Additionally, before I could fully print off my government records, I was also locked out of my electronic personal file that contained my secure professional records."

If you work for the federal government in any capacity, and maybe even a sub-contractor, you should immediately back up and download/print any of your personnel and personal records #USPol

:musk: National Park ranger fired from "dream job" on Valentine's Day pens emotional viral letter: "Things are not ok" - CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/national-park-ranger-fired-dream-job-emotional-viral-letter/

The AP is half-arasely blaming high egg prices on breakfast restaurants.

Tucked way down in the article, barely noticeable is a statement that, "The percentage of eggs that go to U.S. restaurants versus other places, like grocery stores or food manufacturers, is not publicly available. U.S. Foods, a restaurant supplier, and Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. producer of shell eggs, did not respond to The Associated Press' requests for comment."

Yet, the entire article links high egg prices to drive-thru restaurant eggs, restaurants that serve breakfast, etc, etc.

Why or why put this article out without the data, ANY data?

They may get it right on the Gulf of Mexico, but they need to sweep the house of their many recent, post 2020, hires. It's starting to stink at the AP.

SOB, Paul screams into the void

RFK Jr. confirmed, elevating anti-vaccine activist to nation’s top health post #USpol

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-votes-confirm-robert-f-kennedy-jr-health-secretary-rcna191856

@DemocracyMattersALot Bittersweet seeing the old man thrown to the curve like a heap of useless trash.

Glad to see it but I don't like who did the throwing and what they stand for and will do.

They would have no power without his ruthless actions, esp SCOTUS.

@BeAware tumblr didn't "announce" anything.

TechCrunch inquired about the status of ActivityPub integration, and they said what they said in the past, once tumblr is moved over to WordPress, which will take a while because of its size, then it will be available.

Then, TechCrunch wrote a clickbait story about it.🤭

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes/

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing." #USPol #AP #journalism

https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/

Was there a #DigitalOcean burp today for NYC3 spaces? I had 678 timeouts over the half a day sitting in my Sidekiq morgue #Mastoadmin. I guess that isn't too bad considering the volume of posts that comes down the federated firehose, but it's been a while since this has happened.

I've been getting a lot of Mastodon sidekiq errors: ActivityPub:ProcessingWorker "ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::CardinalityViolation: ERROR: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE command cannot affect row a second time HINT: Ensure that no rows proposed for insertion within the same command..."

It always comes back to a post that is from "snac/2.71"

The specific argument starts out with:

post ID (I think), "{\n \"@context\": \"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams\",\n \"type\": \"Update\",\n \"id\".....redacted

#snac #Snac2 #MastoAdmin

Group displaying swastika flags seen near Interstate 75 overpass in #Cincinnati, #Ohio

A group of nearly a dozen Neo-Nazis dressed in black was seen displaying swastika flags on an Interstate 75 overpass near Evendale and Lincoln Heights on Friday #USPol

https://wlwt.com/article/evendale-cincinnati-overpass-display-swastika-police/63706727

2/ 'Hitler been dead!' Crowd runs off armed neo-Nazis and burns their swastika flags #Cincinnati, #Ohio #USPol https://www.alternet.org/crowd-runs-off-nazis/

If you use #NameCheap for anything, another round of "Your Auto-Renewal Payment Didn’t Go Through" phishing emails are hitting inboxes. #infosec

Where they are getting real emails that link up to real domain renewal whois records, esp if you use domain privacy options, I'm not sure. They sent it to a dedicated email account that I use exclusively for Namecheap that shouldn't be in the publicverse.

#MastoAdmin #hosting #Selfhosting .

We're buying a lot of seeds. Beans, corn, tomato, etc, as well as more canning supplies ahead of the Trump tariffs. Every inch of our small yard will be for food production this year. Follow our currently defunct @3SistersEnglishGarden if you are interested in how it will play out.

#gardening #USPol

Who is Jan Dirk Beets, the beneficiary of all these Gaza GoFundMe campaigns organized under Arab names that started sending unsolicited messages and mentions to people recently on the Fediverse? #mutualaid #Fediblock

https://mastodon.social/@mmohamedsaqr/113924188109053808

I want the post button to play something like, "You got mail." Maybe, "OOPS I did it again."

@darnell TB made a graceful entrance in an Ohio high school this week, too. Can you imagine the post-pandemic contact tracing pushback?

🔗 Columbus Public Health confirms tuberculosis case at high School—working with the school district to conduct contact tracing.
https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/whitehall-yearling-high-school-tuberculosis-case/530-6cf52fe1-56d7-4c01-acc8-b1f15f5fb3c3

@texastribune

U.S. Copyright Office says AI generated content can be copyrighted — if a human contributes to or edits it

https://venturebeat.com/ai/u-s-copyright-office-says-ai-generated-content-can-be-copyrighted-if-a-human-contributes-to-or-edits-it/

:pdf: Part 1 , “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-1-Digital-Replicas-Report.pdf

:pdf: part 2 “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability” https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf

Regardless your feelings on the matter of nutrition, this isn't a debate post about that, but if the Trump Admin tries to micromanage SNAP food stamps, turns it into a WIC like, only products from this list, program, or bans the products they are saying they want to ban, MAGA might pull out Mike Pence's gallows and storm the White House. The sheer amount of MAGA on SNAP food stamps isn't widely reported. Same for Medicaid, SSI disability, etc.

Sure, Trump, try to take away their coffee, Mt Dew and Little Debbie's. #USPol .

⚠️ Please don't turn this into a nutrition debate. If you do, be kind and unmentioned me as I can't play whack a notification today with my Parkinson's.
🔗 Why government can’t make America ‘healthier’ by micromanaging groceries purchased with SNAP benefits https://theconversation.com/why-government-cant-make-america-healthier-by-micromanaging-groceries-purchased-with-snap-benefits-246462

@jrollans With all the hype about WordPress federation, WordPress hasn't put in any defederation, self-destruct, mechanism in their plugin and doesn't seem too keen to do it, after more than a year of me going back and forth with the devs on Mastodon and GitHub. I believe this is true for even deleting accounts in WordPress that have federation mode attached. This is true as of the last time I checked.

Essentially, I get "It's hard" and "We're working on it." Fine, at least put up some kind of independent script, guidance or something so we can deactivate and send the signal out to the Fediverse that it's done federating.

It's really malpractice to the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub

@BeAware

@BeAware I was told that could be mitigated if you delete your accounts on your old instance first and give time for that to cycle around. And if you plan on reusing your main account, to be sure to set up a dummy account to make as your admin then delete the real account, If your software will send out account deletions. Take this with a grain of salt though. @jrollans

@darnell Plus, as a show of force, the Coast Guard says they are increasing the Coast Guard's presence in "the maritime border between Texas and Mexico in the Gulf of America"

Off-topic, already officially using the term "Gulf of America" in the press releases instead of Gulf of Mexico.

https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4035591/coast-guard-announces-immediate-action-in-support-of-presidential-executive-ord/