Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In

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…

#News #DOGE #SocialSecurity #ElonMusk #Trump #Musk

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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

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though it doesn't seem to be used here
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

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.

wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vi…

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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…

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I’ve been updating this post about JD Vance’s ski vacation to Vermont with new information in the comments, including a video of Vance skiing and being called “Putin’s puppet” as he skips the lift line. Best sign: VANCE SKIS IN JEANS. kottke.org/25/03/jd-vance-chas…

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

I had no idea there was a new Adrien Tchaikovsky to read. Doesn't it sound good? #Bookstodon
seanrandall.me/recommends/1035…

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-…

in reply to Kimberly Blessing (she/her)

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…

Meet Debian at SCaLE 22x (Southern California Linux Expo 2025), the largest community-run open-source and free software conference in North America, on March 6-9, 2025 in Pasadena, CA, USA. Once again Dima Kogan and other Debian enthusiasts will be representing Debian with a booth. Use the "DEB" promo code to get a discount. Come by and say hi! socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/e… #debian

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…

#curl
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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. :AngeryCat: to this built-in Invoke-WebRequest instead of actual curl

MICROSOOOOOOFT 🖕

in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic

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…

Great perspective: What I Learned While Working With a Guide Dog in the USA: A Personal Perspective evengrounds.com/what-i-learned… #accessibility #mobility #guidedog

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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…

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⚓ After the disgraceful events at the White House yesterday, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of the largest marine fuel companies in #Norway 🇳🇴, appears to have announced that they have stopped refuelling American Navy vessels and are urging other European firms to do the same 😳

#ocean #climate #ukraine

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