Notices by Gene Cowan (genecowan@mastodon.social)

@TheDefiant604 @davidaugust @Urban_Hermit Yup. Worse, he disabled the radar on early cars that had it. That’s when I turned off all the bells & whistles on mine.

@inthehands @david And worse still, even though his fame is tied intrinsically to Tesla, he had nothing to do with creating the company or its product; he simply bought it and co-opted it, and added video games and fart sounds. Like everything else he’s identified with, he’s a fraud built on others’ hard work and creativity.

In case you want to know where all the private tech bro jets are parked, they’re at the north end of Dulles Airport at Atlantic Aviation and other private hangars on Cockpit Ct. I can smell them from my living room couch.

Addendum: the airport has turned one of their runways into a parking lot for private jets. I’ve never seen anything like this in my planespotting. Billionaire blacktop.

The number “1488” is a common symbol used among hate groups. The “14” is shorthand for the “14 Words,” a stand-in for a white supremacist slogan, while “88” refers to an abbreviation of “Heil Hitler,” since H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-lindell-pillow-price-alleged-nazi-dog-whistle_n_66ef01d5e4b0859639dabf43

The rapid expansion of state voucher programs follows court decisions that have eroded the separation between church and state.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/03/tax-dollars-religious-schools/

The IRS is making its free tax-filing platform permanent and open to all 50 states, the Biden administration announced Thursday, following the successful launch of the first-of-its-kind website.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/30/direct-file-irs-taxes/

"We're going to have lawyers in all the major polling locations across the country. We have lawsuits in 81 states right now," announced the stable genius — aka Donald Trump's sycophantic daughter-in-law — on Newsmax. Wow, that's pretty impressive. With all those extra people to reach, no wonder the RNC is broke.

https://boingboing.net/2024/04/24/stable-genius-lara-trump-just-informed-us-that-the-u-s-actually-has-81-states-video.html

@georgetakei just another example of the politicians picking their own voters rather than the other way around.

@BethanyBlack I spent thousands on a 4x3 HD CRT TV around that time which displayed HD content letterboxed across the center; along with a DTV decoder box. The engineers at the local PBS station used to come down to my house a few blocks away to as a test bed for their digital transition.

A year later I had my first widescreen CRT HDTV and it was so futuristic but nearly 3 feet deep. Today, I have an OLED screen a fraction of an inch thick.

@anarchopunk_girl @cstross @Oggie @darkling @kjhealy @id1om My feelings precisely. The hidden items and deep dives required to find something (see: latest system prefs UI) are maddening.

@kjhealy @id1om And now we know why Apple dropped all the skeuomorphic design in iOS. Interesting that it’s still there in desktop UIs.

Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation, abandoning their most aggressive efforts to police online falsehoods in a trend expected to profoundly affect the 2024 presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/