RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/117565386348030550

“One of the first things we’re going to do in the majority, we’re going to run Pete Hegseth out of town,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is now in line to be speaker of the House, announced at a campaign rally just before Election Day.

Let's make sure he doesn't forget that promise, or the more general implied promise of accountability for all (right, Anakin?).

OpenSSH has a vuln condition which allows logging in without a password. A thread.

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html

It only impacts Linux distributions which ship with musl libc and PAM disabled. I think that is just Alpine Linux (all versions).

It doesn’t impact Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Redhat or CentOS. Nor OpenWrt.

The dynamics here are hilarious. Image from a glass negative in my collection, no date/info.

4.95-MW #US #agrivoltaic solar farm to offer 10% cheaper electricity

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-agrivoltaic-solar-farm-cheaper-electricity

@Ethanol Yeah, that is definitely a point -- apparently a lot of people have bought the rhetoric without realizing that it's based on factually incorrect premises. The lie works, as long as it's buried inside a reasonable-seeming wrapper.

I'm not sure how to reach them, but it definitely seems worth some investment of effort one way or another.

Apparently the tech industry has completely forgotten the time-honored principle of GIGO...?

The Babbage quote seems particularly apt.

#LLMs

I got some rare photography of a #blåhaj emerging from it's egg and imprinting on its excited parents.

#trans #TransJoy #TheCirlceOfLife #shorks #SpeciesPreservation

Steve has, once again... stolen a cat.

Can't settle on one evening · Alex Hyner

#art

@mastodonmigration @Npars01 @paninid @bluejay

For what it's worth, even some voices I think of as centrist are saying we need accountability:

First, we need to restore faith in government, and that starts with holding people to account for their corrupt or criminal behavior. We tried the “let bygones be bygones” approach. We did it in the Biden era, and look where it got us. All it does is embolden bad people to feel like they can act with impunity.

The Oversight and Judiciary Committees should exercise their subpoena and investigative powers and begin building cases that could be sent to a future DOJ or state attorneys general for prosecution. The era of self-dealing, of crypto scams, of kickbacks, and of selling access is over.

-- Brian Tyler Cohen

@mastodonmigration @Npars01 @paninid @bluejay

Yeah, I'd be surprised if we see much help from the centrists... or even passive acquiescence...

@Lana [GIF of Miss Piggy whacking some twerp off the stage]

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @AnarchoNinaWrites

"Peter Pan advice"... 🔥

Don't let them whitewash what this election was about.

@gildilinie

I dunno, I kinda enjoy coding -- writing incantations, waving the magic wand and then the screen does colorful stuff...

I only resort to opening The Large Library of Malice when the spells aren't working. ...but, you know, what's a little dealing with eville spirits, between friends? :blobcat_thisisfine:

@majorlinux

@Lana

This bit o' verse seems appropriate:
🎶
Now here you are with your faith
And your Peter Pan advice.
You have no scars on your face
And you cannot handle pressure.
🎶 -- Billy Joel

They've been playing life on "easy", and they don't understand what it's like to really have to fight for something that matters.

They only know coercion and intimidation -- and that doesn't work very well on people for whom that's basically a Tuesday.

@Ethanol It seems clear to me at this point that all of the anti-trans nonsense is just "rallying points" which powermongers are using to build an authoritarian base.

They don't care if it's true -- and actually, with right-wing politics, it works better as a rallying-cry if it isn't true but just sounds plausibly like "common sense" to people who don't know any better, because then there's a "us, the good people, vs. them, the bad people trying to destroy us and our kids" which the powermongers can play off.

They think very differently about reality than we do, and that's a problem -- it's basically at the core of "why we can't have nice things".

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A WORLD OF LIGHT AND SHADOW (2011)
Acrylic on Gessoboard - 20” x 40”

I’m as surprised as the next person when some of these ideas come to me and tell me that they need to be painted, especially the ones that come in my dreams.

I don’t know where they come from, but they feel important. 1/3

#fineart #personalvisions #imaginativerealism

@JoBlakely ...or at least their only plan, ever, is to get power and then do "whatever it takes™" / "what has to be done™" to keep it.

@JoBlakely I've always thought of tankies as basically fascists trying to hijack socialism.

I think there might possibly have been a fascist group, awhile back, which actually had "socialist" in their name... historians help me out here?

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