Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
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Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
propublica.org/article/doge-so…
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The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gdp-economy-government-spending-lutnick-7414ba1bd441bd4bf64620bfd66923b2?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business and Finance @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.Josh Boak (AP News)
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I'm doing too much doom scrolling I have a lot of important things to do... However, @KFosterMarks showed me this really cool research paper, so I decided that I'm going to live-post me reading it in real time as a distraction from the $EVERYTHING right now.
(Well, I live-posted it on bluesky; I'm copying that over here)
Btw, you should follow her! She's awesome.
Now, for the paper!
Title: Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility
DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-000…
The authors: Porter, T, Elnakouri, A., Meyers, E. A., Shibayama, T., Jayawickreme, E. & Grossmann, I
(Naturally, papers often aren't free-as-in-democracy™, so I searched the internet for a pre-print)
... As an aside, y'know what I'd love? A way to spit a DOI into something and get all the pre-prints, news articles about it, learn about what else the authors have done, etc.
And importantly! The social media handles of authors! I wanna thank them and it's *so* hard to find authors outside of academia
So normally if I wanted to really dig into and study a paper, I'd load it into an e-reader and take notes. Unfortunately, that's super cumbersome and the notes don't sync on anything on my computer and so... blah.
(This is not an ask for advice: I just don't have the bandwidth to improve that rn)
But for now, the computer works, and I use Todoist for my todo app and, weirdly, as my most global notes app for future writing / thinking directions. It works, so eh
But I got a sublime.app subscription cause I like what they do and their philosophical approach. So I'm gonna try that one out today
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I'm glad to see the glow effect.
In Draw, I can add glow to a text box without converting to a metafile, but shapes will not show the glow unless converted. This is different from the website documentation.
To access in the Sidebar, it should read Sidebar>Properties>*Text Effects* (Text effects is not listed in the documentation.)
I'm impressed and will use this later today. It will be great to help text stand out against certain backgrounds.
Something's seriously busted with the macros. I submitted a ticket but am fearing that it might not get noticed. I don't know how your system works for that. Anyway, here's the ticket number. I need the answer to this fairly soon or I'll be forced to pay through the nose for MS Access, which I don't want to have to do. I'd rather just get the problem with running or assigning macros to buttons in Base forms fixed.
bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh…
I put out a call for help here too:
universeodon.com/@JustRosy/114…
Update: I wound up possibly solving my own problem, though the solution is wonky and involves using Version 6 instead of Version 25.x (I forget the number).
Here's my comment about that on the bug report:
bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh…
If anyone out there is really great with troubleshooting LibreOffice and its macro functionality, could you please take a look at this? https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165903 #libreoffice @libreoffice@fosstodon.orgUniverseodon Social Media
JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation inkottke.org
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 useful boot utilities.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
I'm thinking German tourists are not really going to want to visit the US, with ICE and the tendency of our National Parks of killing them on vacation.
10news.com/like-a-horror-movie…
#tourism #germany #ICE #politics #USpol
A German tourist is fighting to get released from an immigration detention center after she was denied entry at the San Diego border and taken into custody by ICE last month.Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)
Buy Shroud: A gripping first contact story from Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Adrian Tchaikovsky Main Market by Tchaikovsky, Adrian (ISBN: 9781035013791) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.seanrandall.me
I guess one way to stop illegal immigration is to make the US such a dangerous and unhealthy place to be, no one wants to visit or live here. Make America healthy again--get vaccinated.
Mexicans warned not to travel to Texas over measles
kxan.com/news/mexicans-warned-…
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.Salvador Rivera (KXAN Austin)
ICE are now targeting middle class European visitors (not even long term migrants!) on spurious grounds and locking them up in immigration detention..
kpbs.org/news/border-immigrati…
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.Gustavo Solis (KPBS)
Sadly a bit too far for me to attend in person. I need to check out the on-line stuff (but I'll miss the hallway track.)
I'm hearing about it on all of my favorite podcasts - I hope all of you have a great time! (I know it will be a great conference.)
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Today is also two years since "the nuget story" where I struggled to get a ten year old and vulnerable #curl version delisted:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/02…
Recently there has been an interesting debate in the Open Source world where people have objected to being called "Suppliers" as in Supply Chain Security when you are but an Open Source developer offering your code to the world for free and at no cos…daniel.haxx.se
At one point I had to write some healthcheck scripts for some WebAPIs on Windows. PowerShell was the obvious choice. Neat, it even ships with curl -> Dis going to be easy. Test curl commands in WSL shell -> works like a charm. Copy command to *.ps1 script. Powershell STDOUT full of red errors, mentioning something with wrong usage of Invoke-WebRequest
mfw I realized curl is an alias. 
to this built-in Invoke-WebRequest instead of actual curl
MICROSOOOOOOFT 🖕
Will Apache httpd ever support HTTP/3?
The open fearure request, now 5 years old:
bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bu…
In short: no one is working in it.
Should someone be working on this? No one „should“ do anything in open source.
Do I think I‘d be a good idea? No. But don‘t let me stop you.
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It's good to see LibreOffice getting attention! @WestphalDenn & @bdorer reported another issue earlier which I wrote up as: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… - Hopefully the end result will be LibreOffice support continuing to improve!
And for anyone who missed it, Zvonimir's issue is written up at: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
Steps to reproduce: Open any big document in the latest Libre office writer. press insert+ down arrow for say all Actual behavior: The error sounds are played, and NVDA skips the lines of the docum...GitHub
Three of our developers in their new Tuta hoodies?! Too good not to share 😍
Also 👉 Who would like a Tuta hoodie? ❤️ 🔒
Web forms pose accessibility challenges for blind screen reader users, making proper labeling, required markers, and navigation compatibility essential.Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
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Finally! Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore told PBS they have everything they need -- even wet wipes.Gael Cooper (CNET)
Working with a guide dog in the USA was a life-changing experience. Learn what I discovered about trust, communication & companionship.Tom (Even Grounds)
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Perfect!
In Wyoming, the legislature has decided, that you cannot require others to address you by your preferred pronouns — thinking that this will only hurt trans people, Trump wants to persecute.
So citizen Britt Boril calls in to a committee meeting and deliberately misgenders the male chairman as madam, which he takes offence to — because our rule about allowing disrespect was not meant to be used against us!
(And no, you should never misgenders others, but damn… this move was brilliant)
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Hey MSP! There are #TeslaTakedown events •today• (EDIT: and every Saturday) in Golden Valley and Maplewood, 11am until ???. I’m going to try to juggle family stuff to be there! Maybe you too?
Events are happening across the country. Details & search here:
actionnetwork.org/event_campai…
Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn’t be higher.actionnetwork.org
I got there on the late end, but apparently it peaked close to 100 people.
Folks are apparently coming back every Saturday. MSP folks, plan ahead! Maybe I’ll see you there! Link in the prev post.
Late arrivals are fine, even welcome! Seems like the main crowd was there 11-12:30ish, but some folks were staying until almost 2:00.
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jaaw4l9P…
at 1:40-, it's easy to see when the interpreter fingerspells sub. Marcos but I'm not able to parse which sign she's using for "zapatismo" immediately after. it doesn't help that the dang video keeps cutting away the interpreter lol
Primera mujer indígena en el congreso y la primer mujer interprete de lengua de señas
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