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Tape drive repair at the Computer History Museum. I helped @tubetime figure out why the tape drives wouldn't backspace. The problem turned out to be a bad germanium transistor on an inverter card. 1/5
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The IBM 1401 was the most popular computer of the early 1960s. It has rows and rows of circuit boards—each the size of a playing card—to implement its logic. This computer predates silicon, so it is implemented with germanium transistors.


I ordered a couple of those Trianglelab knock-off CHT nozzles.

What’s going to happen in the new post-de-minimus world of China-US shipping?

@3dprinting

#3DPrinting

  • Lost in customs (0%, 0 votes)
  • Megatariff destruction of my bank account (25%, 2 votes)
  • Both (50%, 4 votes)
  • Something worse (25%, 2 votes)
8 voters. Poll end: 4 mesi fa




From liberatebostonpride4ever and Lucy ParsonsCenter on Instagram:

KNOW THY ENEMY. NO ICE. NO NAZIS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.

Black Chevrolet Tahoe truck
Orange New York Plate
JAY 5858

gray/black Subaru
White New York plate
LSP 3666

Gray Chevrolet
Red letter Mass plate
1EXR 23

Black Nissan titan truck
LGT-1504

Los carros de ICE vistos en Allston/Brighton.
Vió a ICE?
Ilame a la línea de LUCE.

ICE vehicles seen in Allston/Brighton.
See ICE?
Call the LUCE hotline.
(617)-370-5023
LUCEMASS.ORG

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Where local forecast offices no longer monitor #weather around-the-clock. For at least 1/2 a century, the National Weather Service has been an around-the-clock operation. That is no longer the case in parts of the country (CA) as the employees were fired and offices closed. There was a tornado in Dundalk MD 6pm tonight, and and no alerts went out for surrounding areas where there were 65 mph winds and micro bursts, on top of a week of #flooding. archive.ph/c6sIy #climatecrisis + No #FEMA


Beautiful evening for a nature walk, in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. 21 C, and mostly sunny.
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Liberian Legislators Choose New Speaker Following Koffa's Resignation #WestAfrica #Africa #business #choose #currentevents #Economy #governance #Koffas #LegalandJudicialAffairs #Legislators #Liberia #Liberian #news #politics #resignation #Speaker #sports #trade #travel #WestAfrica
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How will Larissa Waters reshape the Greens?

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I wonder as i look at the #greens line up and the anti-environment pro fossil fuel stance #albonese has taken whether, like Howard and the #lnp, he is going to drive #labor into oblivion. #auspol #fossilfuel #environment

Playing hardball and a thug did not work in the long term.



Asahi Linux Highlights Recent Upstream Efforts In Linux 6.15, Other Ongoing Efforts lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


NEW: Ottawa Police deny inviting convoy figure to help them with anti-LGBTQ+ protest at elementary school

Community groups call for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was “invited” to help manage aggressive protests

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Star Trek but every time they say Ferengi its fucking (TNG Supercut) 😆

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Zionist Militant Group Responsible for ICE Arrest of Pro-Palestine Former Student mintpressnews.com/zionist-grou…


"In four of the agency’s 122 weather forecasting offices around the country, there aren’t enough meteorologists to staff an overnight shift, according to the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union representing agency workers. And at least several more forecast offices are expected to stop staffing an overnight shift as early as Sunday."

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#wx #disasters #NWS #weather

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Georgia’s LIFE Act is keeping a brain-dead woman on life support against the wishes of her family—all because she was nine weeks pregnant at the time of her death.

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Everyday Is A Winding Road 🌬
#SherylCrow
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"The 1948 Nakba and Today's Gaza Genocide Are Two Sides of the Same Coin"

"Maram tells me, “Diana, perhaps the death that we are trying to avoid is better than the life we are living? What if this is my life for the rest of my life? Isn’t death better?”

"Twelve-year-old girls should not be speaking this way."

"For 77 years, Palestinians have been invisible to Israelis – and much of the world."

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#nakba #gazagenocidenotwar #westernenablement #uspol #ukpol #europol .



The tendency of big business is to get bigger. Through mergers and monopolies it is constantly increasing the number of persons with whom it is in direct contact. All this has intensified and multiplied the public relationships of business. --Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928) #EconomicHappinessMachine #uniparty #fakenews #misinformation #disinformation #propaganda


#gazetadobrasil #jornalismo #noticias #politics “Moraes não é radical”, diz Temer, defendendo atuação do ministro no STF gazetabrasil.com.br/politica/2…


Does selling original paintings for $10 compensate me for my time and artistic vision? No. But is it a great business move? Also no. Here's why I do it anyway artologica.substack.com/p/an-i… #art #sciart


Les dirigeants européens appellent à lever le blocus sur Gaza et condamnent la violence des colons en Cisjordanie #Palestine french.palinfo.com/actualites/…


How Higher Inflation and Tariffs Impact Your Wallet


Hey everyone, it's been a week with some pretty significant economic news, and honestly, some of it feels like a bit of a gut punch. Last night on the CBS Evening News, they highlighted a really concerning report: most Americans aren't earning enough to t


Hey everyone, it’s been a week with some pretty significant economic news, and honestly, some of it feels like a bit of a gut punch. Last night on the CBS Evening News, they highlighted a really concerning report: most Americans aren’t earning enough to truly afford a basic quality of life.

Think about that for a second. This isn’t just about scraping by for food and rent anymore. This report factored in things we all rely on, like technology for work and school, healthcare costs, and even childcare. And the bottom 60% of households? It’s out of reach for them. That’s a huge chunk of our country.

Then, adding to the picture, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was talking about a potential new economic landscape with higher inflation risks. What does that translate to? Well, it likely means interest rates could stay higher for longer.

To help us make sense of all this, CBS brought in Clare Jones, the U.S. Economics Editor for the Financial Times, and she laid it out pretty clearly.

Clare pointed out that Powell’s remarks really show how much things have shifted. Remember not that long ago when the big worry was too little inflation? Now, the Fed is preparing for the possibility of too much. We’ve already seen how recent price hikes have squeezed our wallets, and higher interest rates are likely to keep that pressure on. Say goodbye to those super low interest rates we saw after the 2008 crisis and during the early pandemic days.

So, is this the start of a slippery slope towards a weaker economy, maybe even a recession? It’s the question on everyone’s mind, right?

Clare offered a little bit of a silver lining, mentioning some recent high-level talks between the US and China that led to a significant drop in tariffs on Chinese goods – from a whopping 145% down to 30%. That’s definitely a positive step and should offer some relief.

However, she also cautioned that we’re likely still looking at higher prices and slower economic growth in the coming months. A big part of that is the lingering impact of the tariffs and trade policies from the previous administration.

We even heard how major players like Walmart are expecting to raise prices later this month specifically because of these tariffs. Think about what that means for families already struggling to afford the essentials. As Clare put it, “It’s bad news.”

And it’s not just the big corporations feeling it. Small businesses are echoing these concerns. While the tariff reduction is better, 30% is still a significant cost that will likely be passed on to us, the consumers.

Here’s the kicker: this tariff reduction is only a 90-day pause. So, there’s still a huge cloud of uncertainty hanging over businesses and our everyday spending.

Clare’s final assessment was pretty blunt: “Frankly, we’re still in a worse position than we were at the start of the year. The outlook isn’t a total disaster, but it’s not looking particularly hopeful either.”

It’s a reality check, for sure. It feels like we’re all navigating a tougher economic landscape right now, and these insights from the CBS Evening News and Clare Jones really highlight the challenges many of us are facing. Let’s hope those talks and the tariff adjustments lead to more positive changes down the road.

What are your thoughts on all this? How are you feeling the impact of these economic shifts? Let’s chat in the comments below.



Want to know how OpenAI's latest programming AI agent Codex works? In this official OpenAI demonstration, you will see:

Core abilities of Codex: How to connect to GitHub, browse and understand code repositories independently, make code modifications, and automatically generate pull requests (PRs).🧵1/2

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#AI Threads


OpenAI has launched Codex, a software engineering agent that can handle multiple tasks in parallel within isolated sandbox environments. These tasks include writing code, fixing bugs, answering codebase questions, and making pull requests. Codex runs on the cloud and is powered by the optimized o3 model, known as codex-1. It has shown strong performance in SWE-Bench and OpenAI’s internal benchmark tests, generating code in a style similar to humans.🧵1/4

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#AI Threads


#ai


I like going on vacation but it's good to be back home again with a little doggo on my lap.


New from Julian Barnes, Maggie Haberman and me: Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang The move followed a disclosure that intelligence agencies disagree with a key factual claim Trump made to invoke a wartime deportation law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

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title: George P. Marsh
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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"This matched set of Florida’s finest writers comes at our fraught, conflicted times with confidence and clear eyes," David Von Drehle writes. wapo.st/3GZOliU



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17th Aesthetic Symposium on Architecture held #DPRK vok.rep.kp/index.php/detail_co…
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"but slurring gay women or men is just as unacceptable"

I think the word you're not willing to say is probably worse

Just a thought

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Today, Bezuidenhout and the Consone Quartet play #Mayer and #Mozart in #Schwetzingen worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu… #wch


With sales tanking because its CEO went full “Roman Salute”, the stock price can only defy gravity for so long. So Tesla is already making changes to stave off the inevitable shareholder lawsuits.

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@tchambers Holy crap.

So the company unilaterally instituted a policy of “only shareholders with 3% or more stake in the company can bring suit” - so now, nobody with less than $30 billion in company stock can sue them.

Funny world where literal billionaires can be “too poor to have any legally recognized opinion”

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Well, color me surprised.

Consumer Reports investigation finds Kroger stores have been overcharging shoppers on sale items.

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Loving this Madras Plaid. Gotta get some threads like this.

#Plaid #MadrasPlaid #Threads




Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for the party game Bad Choices. Bad choices might be just a game for some, but for others it is a lifestyle. For many of us it is a daily accomplishment.
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Talks In Istanbul Unlikely To Produce Results orientalreview.su/2025/05/16/t…







Enter the #Fediverse

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#privacy #FOSS #SocialMedia




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Le blocus israélien de Gaza est un "outil d’extermination". Human Rights Watch affirme que des pays comme les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni, la France et l’Allemagne pourraient être "responsables" de "génocide" pour ne pas avoir agi.
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⚠️🇷🇴NATO or Russia? After Months Of Chaos And Controversy, Romanians Head To Polls To Chooses On Path Or The Other (more) rferl.org/a/33414868.html #Ukraine #Romania #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState




17 May 1914 | A Czech Jewish woman, Zděnka Weilová, was born in Březnice.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.

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The image shows two kitchen items on a wooden surface. On the left is a red package of Taekyung Red Pepper Powder, prominently featuring the text "Taekyung Red Pepper Powder" in both Korean and English. The package is labeled as "Coarse" and indicates a net weight of 454 grams (1 pound). The packaging also includes certification marks such as ISO, HACCP, and KOSHER, and features images of red chili peppers. On the right is a cylindrical container of Mitani Classic Chicken Salt, an all-purpose seasoning. The label states it is "All Natural," "No MSG Added," and "Gluten Free." It also mentions "Vegetarian Approved" and "Australian Origin." The container has a white lid with a perforated top for easy dispensing.

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None can be a #cybersecurity warrior without knowing the basics of #cryptography. cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurit…