If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
@Em0nM4stodon We're safe here in the UK, as our government will happily cave in to any demand from the trump clown circus, (aka the administration).
2001 Film, Turned Down by Nicolas Cage, Named One of the Greatest Movies of All Time
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/2001-film-turned-down-by-nicolas-cage-named-one-of-the-greatest-movies-of-all-time?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News @news-mensjournal
Hanko 8.3.25
Maryland USA accounts to follow (continued):
RETRO TECHNOLOGY
@bloopmuseum - Electronic entertainment museum & archive in Baltimore
ARTS & CULTURE
@zipzapzop - Electronic music producer in Baltimore
@index@artistsfrommaryland.org - Highlighting creative people in Maryland
@ArtsAtUMBC - Dance, music, theatre, visual arts at Univ of Maryland
ACADEMIC
@index@dsah.umd.edu - Digital Studies Cert at Univ of Maryland
@hcil_umd - Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Univ of Maryland
SPORT
@index@oriolesreview.com - Baltimore Orioles unofficial blog
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Maryland USA accounts to follow (continued):
AMATEUR RADIO
@wb2ifs - Emergency comms amateur radio in Prince George’s County
WEATHER
@rvaweather - Weather forecasts, severe weather alerts for Virginia, Maryland & DC
🌤️ WEATHER FORECASTS
@annapolis__maryland
@baltimore__maryland
@bel_air__maryland
@bethesda__maryland
@bowie__maryland
@cambridge__maryland
@college_park__maryland
@cumberland__maryland
@easton__maryland
@edgewood__maryland
@elkton__maryland
@frederick__maryland
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This is useful because it allows us to derive results about elliptic
curves from results about formal groups, which are simpler.
May this be the Age of Emancipation.
adding 3 more
- Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
- Nina Simone - Backlash Blues
- John Mellencamp - Rain on the Scarecrow
@codinghorror They are often overlooked but, in my opinion, another great Australian band that have beautifully lyrical songs about poverty, oppression, etc. are Augie March.
In particular, check out their songs “Bottle Baby” and “The Hole In Your Roof” (one of my all time favourite songs) and “Drowning Dream”.
Glenn Richards (their songwriter and frontman) is a criminally unappreciated poet.
Autistic characters are seldom seen on the big screen in Japan. Syoutarou Kobayasi's "Lives at Right Angles" is a heartfelt, insightful tale of an autistic man's unbreakable bond with his sister. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/08/23/film/lives-at-right-angles/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #syoutaroukobayasi #shotayasuda #non #autism #neurodiversity
@thejapantimes Last year I watched Akira Kurosawa's 1963 "High and Low," the inspiration for Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest.
There's a little throwaway scene where police are trying to place the location of a phone call based on the sound of a train in the background. One detective knows exactly whom to ask: a uniformed officer who is absolutely DELIGHTED to expound on the differences among sounds of the trains, and the reasons for the differences. Classic Autistic representation, 1963 Japan.
New post: "The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/
Not an easy post for me to write, but it felt worthwhile to jot down some of these thoughts.
Quixoticgeek
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A couple days ago, Spider-Man punched a Nazi in the face.
Here's his defense fund.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-minnesota-spiderman-recover
Why would USA want to import beef from Argentina when Iowa already exists?
my partial understanding is that our beef supply is dwindling because heifer retention is continuing to fall. They're not being bred, so fewer cattle going to market.
Tyson just closed the beef processing plant in Illinois a week or so ago. Emailed the employees, telling them "Today is your final shift."
@jameswoodcock Hey there! I was trying out your PXR MIDI Player for Mac and found some MT-32 files it had some issues with. I've sent a support request about it but also wanted to bring it up here so I could offer you the files if having them would help.
Can anyone in Canadia tell us what projects funded under Build Canada Homes and Build Strong Communities Fund look like on the ground? Especially from the perspective of indigenous peoples whose ancestral land sits within modern Canada, or adjacent to it.
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"Just last Monday in St. John’s, the governments of Canada, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador launched the single largest investment in Canada’s history to build the largest clean-energy project in North America ever ... It will produce enough clean electricity to power every single vehicle in Canada."
#MarkCarney, 2026
https://thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-why-i-rejected-trumps-trade-deal/
Yay! But also ...
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Stefan Bohacek
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I cannot rest until some "big" accounts, publicatons, groups et al tag #NHAMFest26 or link https://fest.nham.co.uk , or quote or boost some posts about this distributed online festival streaming parade of talented artists, makers and communicators.
Many speak a lot about wanting more positivity, human art, discovery and community building in the feed and world.
Well HERE it is and here we are. Lend a voice so we don't lose ours. Support indie artists doing things on platforms of more agency!
Incidentally, I just placed an online supermarket delivery order via Amazon (because I need a food drop for stuff I can't carry upstairs right now) and their unit price calculations on groceries are broken, looks like a multiply instead of divide error to go from pack size to price per kg. Feels like AI-induced enshittification has hit the big boys.
@cstross Amazon went hard on “Use our LLM for everything in your job, or else.” 2-3 years ago.
@algernon a miserable pile of if statements!
@cinebox In many cases, not even that. It's thoughts & prayers that the agent respect a miserable pile of if statements.
The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
