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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica

Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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The entire premise of a "top 40" radio station is so strange.

What do they primarily play? Songs people listen to a lot. What songs do people listen to a lot? Songs that get played on the radio frequently.

I suppose the feedback loop isnt as bad now that younger folks tend to use means other than radio to discover new music.

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As a fun nerdsnipe, I'm getting pretty deep into 80s style speech synthesis, and have been studying systems from that era. What I'd like to do is a low-resource synthesizer that can run on chips such as RP2350. I'm reading the MITalk book and think it might be reimplementable, but have questions. If you know someone who might also be interested in this, please put us in touch.

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Reviewing Classic Christmas Stories As A Klingon:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. A Ferenghi businessman is haunted by three spirits who attempt to remind him of his honor. The Ferenghi should have simply slain the demons who attacked him. 3/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory to Tiny Tim!

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. Two pathetic humans attempt a mating ceremony in which they sell their most prized possessions in order to purchase gifts for each other. Incomprehensible. Why does the female not simply bite the male to show her affection. 1/5 Christmas Bat'leths.

The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman. A child's toy comes to life and defeats the evil Rat King in glorious hand-to-hand combat. Then the toy's honor is memorialized in dance and song. A true warrior's tale! 5/5 Christmas Bat'leths.

A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Shulz. A young warrior struggles with internal demons of self-doubt and depression. While selecting a Christmas tree, he symbolically chooses one which reflects how he views himself - a weak tree, unable to support even a single ornament. He lashes out at those he considers his closest friends, attempting to remind them of their honor, and eventually gives up, believing his efforts were ultimately meaningless. But he is mistaken. His words were spoken with the heart of a true Klingon warrior, and his friends wrap the tree in their most prized possessions, giving it the strength to stand on its own, holding the weight of ornaments many times its own weight over. They gather around and sing songs of bravery and courage, and remind the young Klingon that he too will be welcomed into Sto-vo-Kor. Because sometimes the greatest battle a warrior will ever fight is the one inside his own mind and heart. 6/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory to the House of Brown.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr Seuss. A cautionary tale. A Klingon from a lowly house is shunned by his peers and forced to live without honor on the outskirts of town. Instead of seeking honor and glory on his own like a true Klingon, he instead sneaks around under cover of darkness and steals the town's presents with the help of his faithful targ. As punishment, Kah'less removes his warrior spirit and he is doomed to stay in the small town facing his dishonor every day. If he had the heart of a warrior, he would have done battle against Whoville and claimed the glory of Christmas for his own. 4/5 Christmas Bat'leths.

The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton. The King of Halloween Town assigns three children to kidnap the demon Sandy Claws because he is a coward who refuses to fight his own battles. They too fail, because none of them possess the heart of a warrior. 0/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Tim Burton has no honor.

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May. A young warrior is shunned by his peers due to a physical deformity. He leaves his family and house to seek his own glory. He returns after defeating a dentist, a filthy gold-loving Ferenghi prospector, and an abominable snowman. Recognizing his fearless warrior spirit, he is given the place of honor at the front of Santa's sleigh. 5/5 Christmas Bat'leths. Glory upon the House of Rudolph!

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I might be weird (well, I'm sure that I am, in a lot of ways), but I wouldn't really mind if people just didn't buy me gifts. I feel like it contributes to me accumulating clutter. But some people really enjoy buying gifts, so I can't really say, "don't buy me anything," and I feel like I need to roll with it. But, just as one example, now I have two sets of measuring cups and spoons (one of my relatives seemed to think that, somehow, I might not already have a set). There's probably a young blind person somewhere who could use one of my sets, if I can find them. On the other hand, I never really know what to buy as far as clothes go, so I don't mind if people buy them for me, except that I end up with more jackets than I need, and so on. But, again, someone can probably use one of my extras, so it's a matter of me figuring out what to do.

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I should've done this a long time ago (and I thought I did at one point) but just subscribed to the GNOME release calendar on my phone, so I'm hoping that I'll get notifications there when it's a release day. I'm always worried that I'll overlook the deadline and forget to make an AT-SPI release, and I'm pretty sure that I've done that before, so hopefully this will help.

s an aside, I don't think I've ever used my measuring spoons, either. I never measure spices, but then I'm not any kind of chef, either.

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Updated!
TheMistWorld 3-in-1 simulator tool got a huge overhaul.
You can now create gems, or enhance equipment, with actual game sounds. That's right, you weren't tired of hearing the equipment failing sound over and over again enough? Now you can hear it slam endlessly and not caust you any real or in-game money!
Same goes for gems. We now have an interactive, time-based enhancement mode where you can listen to gems failing and succeeding as it happens per level. If you don't check it, in either scenario, you get a text progress.
The gem simulator now has shard prices for server 1 and server 2, so you are able to compare which server has what.
Merry christmas and happy new year.
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Mist World 3-in-1 simulator

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Starting with v7.68.5-1, we've unified Molly and Molly-FOSS into a single fully FOSS app, with no proprietary dependencies.

We replaced the proprietary Play Services SDK previously used by Molly with our own open-source implementation, so FCM push notifications are now supported for all users.

If you have either Molly or Molly-FOSS installed, just update like usual. No migration needed.

Molly v7.68.5-1 is already available on GitHub and F-Droid. Accrescent coming soon.

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RE: mastodon.social/@Craigp/115788…

if you use firefox set browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled to false in about:config

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The newest version of Firefox added browser.ml.linkPreview.* settings in about:config, which apparently serve no purpose other than popping up massive, stupid overlays where they offer to use AI to describe the bookmark you've visited 500 times.

So fuckin' stupid that we have to constantly disable more and more settings they've randomly added to get around the fact that we've disabled all the settings. It's just the fucking worst, people that run companies are all brain-dead assholes.


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The newest version of Firefox added browser.ml.linkPreview.* settings in about:config, which apparently serve no purpose other than popping up massive, stupid overlays where they offer to use AI to describe the bookmark you've visited 500 times.

So fuckin' stupid that we have to constantly disable more and more settings they've randomly added to get around the fact that we've disabled all the settings. It's just the fucking worst, people that run companies are all brain-dead assholes.

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Dropbox is trash. Have to join a shared folder but can't because apparently I'm using 360% of my available storage, oh no. The root folder is empty, I left all shared folders, I don't have photos uploaded... Asked Claude, apparently it's a backup feature I have turned on somewhere somewhen, but no idea how to turn it off anymore. Meanwhile, on Windows it's spamming you with stupid notifications, and on the web and mobile app, it's trying to shove the premium plans up your throat no matter where you click. Even if I get this crap resolved, no way I'm even considering using that again. Can't we just have a good cloud option these days?

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Wir freuen uns über die Veröffentlichung eines selbstgemachten Musikvideos der verrückten Jugend vom Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband WNB: Wie im Looping
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Verrückte Jugend - Wie im Looping

Mit ihrem ersten selbstgeschriebenen und selbstproduzierten Song „Wie im Looping“ feiert die Verrückte Jugend ihr Musikvideo-Debüt. Der Song entstand im Rahm...
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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonští! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Je suchý mráz. Svítí velké žluté kulaté. To je vám taková paráda! Jeho Lordstvo dostalo půlku vařeného vejce. Sir Artur kus rybičky. Já si dávám ranní kávu. Den jako malovaný.
Musím říct, že Archibald klame tělem. Vypadá jako roztomilý medvídek, který neumí do pěti napočítat. Ale nevím, jaké geny v něm dřímají. Občas se stane, že chytí stopu. Zavětří jako Bloodhound, nahodí vrtuli a mizí v dálce s čumákem při zemi. Tuhle ho zase přepadnou chrtí myšlenky. Letí jako tryskáč, nožičky nejsou vidět, překážky neexistují. Úplný Falco. A pak má chvilky, kdy je proti němu Rotvajler hadr. Kde se v něm bere to hluboké vrčení a vlčí dravost? Porve se s vámi jako zarputilý buldok. Člověk by se ho na chvilku i bál.
A pak sebou plácne na gauč. Kříženec lachtana, knedle, čuníka, tousťáku, kočky a brambory.
Vy si taky najděte nějaký objekt k prozkoumání. Jen pozor, jestli nemá ostré zuby. Aby vás nehryznul. 😇
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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Hier gerade: Ein Rücksturz in die 90er.

Damals wohnten wir in einem Haus, das seit den frühen 70ern eine Sechser-WG war und in der links-alternativen Szene Triers einen berühmt-berüchtigten Ruf als Zentrum allen Chaos, aber auch als Ort legendärer WG-Feten hatte.

Für die Badezimmertüre gab es keinen Schlüssel mehr, sodass man, wenn man ungestört bleiben wollte, laut Musik hörte.

Je nach Musik wusste man, wer sich gerade im Bad befand. Z. B. hörte Mitbewohnerin T. entweder Element of Crime, Ry Cooder oder Buena Vista Social Club.

Jetzt hat meine Liebste die Badezimmer-Musiktradition wiederaufgenommen und ich muss nun an unsere ehemalige Mitbewohnerin T. denken, weil meine Liebste Talking Timbuktu von Ry Cooder hört. ^_^

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Erdrandbewohner

Das ist alles vorgekommen. Auch, dass während zwei Leute zusammen in der Wanne badeten, sich andere Mitbewohner*innen einen kleinen Tisch und Stühle holten, um zusammen Backgammon zu spielen oder zu quatschen. Vom Bad aus kam man auch auf das Dach vom Anbau. Im Sommer schliefen wir darauf und dort wuchsen auch die Hanfpflanzen. Du siehst - Intimsphäre war bei uns meist nur optional. ;-)
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Agréablement surprise de voir que le site des bibliothèques de Paris a été mis à jour pour ajouter des informations sur l’accessibilité numérique des epubs que l’on peut emprunter.

Le site lui est encore loin d'être accessible malheureusement.

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#AccessibilitéNumérique #ePub #EAA


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Comment vivre et s'émanciper dans un monde façonné par l'oppression raciale ? En commençant par en reconnaître la dimension systémique : plus qu'une idéologie de haine, plus qu'une question individuelle ou morale, c'est un régime politique, dont les…
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Anyone using S3 (compatible) storage for incremental backups of Linux and/or MacOS machines at home? If yes, what backup software/tool? Open source preferred. My first unfocused research suggests to look at restic [1] and maybe just some scripting around rclone [2]. Any hints/links welcome! (Yes, this is part of my project to use local S3 compatible storage based on garage [3])

[1] restic.net
[2] rclone.org
[3] garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr

#SelfHost #SysAdminLife @homelab


The Garage team - An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Garage
#selfhost #sysadminlife @Run your own homelab
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There is a CLI tool that lets you do common video and audio operations without having to remember complex ffmpeg syntax. There is no AI and no API calls, just old school pattern matching. It’s fast, works offline, and feels like video editing in plain English right from your CLI. For example, you can simply type:
```
ff convert my-file.mp4 to gif
```
And it will generate the ffmege command for you:
```
ffmpeg -i my-file.mp4 -vf fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos -loop 0 -y video_output.gif
```

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@Scott I made a bat file based on similar information a month or so ago that takes image as the first input, file as the second, and turns that video into <second file.mp4> as the output.
The contents of said batch file goes like this:

@ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i %1 -i %2 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -shortest "%~dpn2.mp4"

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The #Trump administration has been accusing the #EU of #censorship via its #DigitalServicesAct, but is any of what they are saying true?

Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#EUpol #USpol

#Trump #EU #censorship #uspol #digitalservicesact #eupol
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Somewhere along the line developing Catima changed from "fun little hobby project where I can build an useful thing and have fun" to "oh God if I make a single mistake I risk 125 thousand people losing their data, I must not make any mistakes" and I do kinda miss the old vibe.

I mean it's amazing that my little hobby project got this many people to have just that tiny bit more privacy (yes, loyalty cards inherently are tracking but at least we reduce the trackers) but sheesh 😅

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OK, I am a lot more impressed with Supertonic than I thought. It has its own text processor that does some uncommon context text-based things like phone numbers, technical units, and financial stuff, that other commercial AI TTS engines like Eleven Labs, Gemini, Open AI, and Microsoft Azure don't do. And plus, unlike Sonata/Piper, it's not using eSpeak as a base.
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