They’re putting blue food coloring in everything

"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.

"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.

But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
↫ Luna Winters

"Blue" food isn't food.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142847/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

#ClownCar

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.

Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.

It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...

Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications

In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.

Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

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TERMS for our TIMES LET'S FACE IT: THESE OLD BINARIES HAVE BECOME TIRED AND VAGUE. EVIDENCE-BASED vs. PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL VS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL CORRUPT VS. FAIR IMAGINE IF THESE TERMS WERE INSERTED INTO TYPICAL HORSE RACE NEWS COVERAGE. Anchorman: THE CONSTITUTION IS DOWN IN THE POLLS. CAN IT APPEAL TO SWING VOTERS? TV reporter with Ice agent hauling away older woman in background: AND ANOTHER SETBACK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY. Pundit: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS VERY POPULAR AND WILL BE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS. Reporter: SOME SAY BARBARISM HAS BEEN WRONGLY EXCLUDED FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS RIGHT VS. LEFT DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY THESE INSTEAD: AUTHORITARIANISM VS. DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS VS. BARBARISM

(And a current web search shows no immediate results for midwestbroadcast in this context, but I know I have some references in old linguistic textbooks to this. Language is a living thing and constantly in flux.)

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The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Someone had too much fun making this: https://github.com/W1LDN16H7/JPL

The unusual behavior of a handle spinning in space, suddenly reversing its orientation, a striking example of the tennis racket theorem (also called the Dzhanibekov effect).

Credti: NASA

#science #space #alt4me

A few years ago, at least twice a week someone posted the rotating, extending wooden table gif to the fediverse, because they saw it for the first time and were fascinated by it. It became a bit annoying, but it has recently disappeared from the fediverse, it seems. I kinda miss being annoyed by it. So. Here it is again :)

It’s known as a Jupe table, named after the inventor Robert Jupe, who patented it in 1835.

UPDATE: here’s a 11 minute video explaing how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JFJSIJIe9A

Sorry I'm late. There was a CAT on my car.

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Photo of a CAT construction vehicle that has fallen off a truck bed onto a car parked on the side of the street.

Today I learned there are rules for Road Runner ... BEEP-BEEP!

(creator Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner)

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RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 2. NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS. RULE 3. THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC. (REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA) RULE 4. NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 5. THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER. RULE 6. ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT. RULE 7. ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION. RULE 8. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9. THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.

@Viss @da_667 🦅

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If you wear a falconry glove to the park and frantically look around on the sky, everyone with a small dog will leave.

(I may personally disagree with @gruber@mastodon.social on many things, upon this I will agree.)

https://www.sun-ways.ch
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/can-floating-solar-panels-on-a-reservoir-help-the-colorado-river/

(Also, it appears solar can be beneficial to some agricultural purposes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/crops-under-solar-panels-can-be-a-win-win/ )

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

Perhaps a forked Dovecot is the way forward?

Phone forensics

Usually law enforcement is very secretive about them analyzing the phones of suspects.

But a forensic lab in #montana is extremely transparent about it. They put the dump of every phone on a public share. Everyone with Internet access can access those dumps.

While I am usually a proponent of government transparency, this takes it a bit too far even for my taste.

Every phone dump is one directory and some case names can be easily connected to crime & death headline news in the U.S.

So for one case I am pretty sure, that I can even say which Sheriff is responsible for that one of the investigations.

I sent that Sheriff an email, i sent him a text message and I even spoke on his voicebox. I even sent him the extraction report from Graykey.

It is really frustrating that I get no response at all. The leak is still open.

The security researcher that found the leak also tried some contacts but had as little success as I do.

I personally believe that this leaks even constitutes a federal crime. Some cases have names ending on CSAM. The security researcher stayed away from any of those and I did not access the files on that server at all.

So does anybody know someone within the #fbi that would give a shit about that. I am getting very tired.

#graykey #cellebrite #forensics

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?