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mayabuttreeks

@ mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

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  • Anyone else use RSS?

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  • I mostly use it to monitor individual feeds for chatty, talkradio-esque mp3 files that I then download and play from my personal devices. I've taken to calling them "podcasts" ;)

  • How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

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  • Oy. Sadly, I suspect anybody who has worked in dev knows the outlines of this story: Management promising deliverables with unrealistic timelines and functionality; team leads with such poor internal product knowledge they don't recognize catastrophic issues until it's too late; poorly-trained devs squeezed to push out unscalable kludgy insecure nightmares "for now" that just never get addressed; systems gradually becoming a Jenga tower of manual workarounds and undocumented slapdash quick fixes... Ugh. Nightmare fuel.

  • ‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported | CNN Politics

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  • The longer I'm an adult the more terrifying it is to realize how many people there are in positions of power over people who are either complete morons or straight up mentally ill.

  • Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linked to Trump White House

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  • the large U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management invested $50 million US

    Fascinated at how many Wall Street bros will just unironically give their companies names that are so blatantly villainous to anyone with an iota of cultural competency. Weyland-Yutani next?

  • Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her

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  • This "Shield of the Americas" thing that apparently the very NOT FIRED please don't tell people i was fired-Noem is being shunted into is gonna be just another Greenland-esque bullshit attempt to push and bully every sovereign nation across two continents. And with her involved, everybody brace yourself because it's gonna get stupider, more insulting, and more aggressive. Like yeah, better get this woman involved in international diplomacy because she and her boyfriend/side piece did such a fucking normal job of domestic affairs... ಠ_ಠ

  • Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

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  • I do hope this move results in more support for the IA/Wayback Machine and helps them to update some of their crawler tech — thanks to the rise of AI, some sites are effectively (thru captchas etc.) or actively (through straight-up greed [coughRedditcough]) blocked from being archived almost entirely, which is frustrating for legit archivists/contributors.

  • This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.

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  • Major European allies decline to join first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace

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  • WHERE does this motherfucker get off?? What kind of lunatic still has the audacity to claim some right to head a Board of PEACE when 75% of the headlines I've read today said he's been gasping, sweating and salivating in anticipation of getting to start yet another idiotic middle east war, this time with Iran, of all places...

  • Tiny Homes Are Big in Texas—and They’re Selling ‘Rapidly’

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  • Goddamn. And what mostly kills me about "tiny homes" is that, like... prefabs exist! Mobile homes exist! They've existed for a long time! But the cultural divide and associated stigma that has been cultivated by dipshits like David Brooks and his ilk has led a huge number of people to believe they're too good for "trailer" living, so they opt to pay thru the nose for very little additional benefit.

  • Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras

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  • libertarian city-states to “restore Western Civilization.”

    These grasping neo-feudalist motherfuckers need a boot lodged somewhere dark and moist. And despite his delusions of being some kind of master of the universe, someone needs to break it to Thiel he ain't the incarnation of Moore's Ozymandias, despite the fact he clearly thinks dollars = 'smart boy points' that automatically confer genius on any topic his greasy, Zippy-the-Pinhead-esque noggin puts its mind to.

  • Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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  • News @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    WSJ lawyers argue Trump's past public comments are so "bawdy" it's impossible for him to suffer reputational harm from its Epstein coverage

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2026/02/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-lawsuit-wall-street-journal-lewd-bawdy/

  • Neutral polite nod rule

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  • Oh look, it's a picture of me at every family gathering.

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Trump's delusion he has an "irrefutable" right to impose voting restrictions on states might originate from a Florida ex-Marriott employee who claims he found secret text in the U.S. Constitution

    electionlawblog.org

  • Barack Obama says aliens ‘are real’, but not in Area 51

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  • OK sure "they're real" but said in a tongue-in-cheek manner and no follow-up from the 'journalist', LOL... Right on cue, another nothingburger that will keep the Art-Bell-Coast-to-Coast crowd occupied for another few decades while the billionaire class continues to build their empires.

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Heh...my only real memory of the film from viewing it back in the day is Liev Schreiber's time-traveling character snickering at the word "erection". Clearly I should rewatch it!

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • Terriers - excellent 2010 caper-style dramedy series starring Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James, created by the screenwriter behind "Oceans Eleven". Relatable & endearing characters, compelling arcs, razor-sharp writing, wrapped in a noire detective plot set in sunny San Diego. Aired for just 13 eps on FX back in the day, only a couple of years before streaming platforms really hit big (and where it likely would have found its audience) and I've mourned "what could have been" ever since. Can't recommend it enough, despite the final ep having a bit of a "lady or the tiger" ending. I urge you to seek it out.

  • Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

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  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    mayabuttreeks @lemmy.ca

    Cuts to food safety don’t save money. They cost lives

    www.ipolitics.ca /2026/02/12/cuts-to-food-safety-dont-save-money-they-cost-lives/

  • 4 out of 6 "Powerful" Epstein Accomplices Named by Congressmen Appear To Be Ordinary New Yorkers

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  • So messed up... And "own goal"-type errors (if that is genuinely what this turns out to be) like this are doubly infuriating in that they not only unnecessarily smear uninvolved civilians but also provide ammo to bad-faith actors who will now double down on their insistence the entire push for transparency is a "witch hunt". The last thing the world needs is to give the flailing MAGA attack apparatus ammo. Ugh.

  • Canada’s new AI strategy is off to a bad start | BetaKit

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  • Why does it not occur to the overconfident goons reflexively hitting "report" that the reason AI uses em dashes so frequently is because SO DID THE ACTUAL HUMANS they stole their shit from?? Alt+0151 motherfuckers, it's not that deep 🙄

  • Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security

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  • This fucking ghoul needs to be among the first in handcuffs when the prosecutions start.