Crazy Uncle Harris

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[Crazy Uncle Harris @harris_plaisted]

the bird might be going down, I prefer Counter Social instead of just pure mastodon. I've been on both for years.
https://t.co/4gPh4UBFh8
https://t.co/d6EgQ93G1B (not used but is me)

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Recessions don’t hit all parts of the country equally. IMO, small cities, towns and states will get hit the worst. And it won’t be pretty.

They are more dependent on federal spending, so they will feel the brunt of federal spending cuts and job reductions disproportionately. They can be catastrophic to a town.

Because they are smaller, and more expensive to reach, they are more susceptible to the impact of tariffs and will be the first to see their product shipments cut when there are shortages, and their prices will go up more as a result.

They will see fabrics of their communities cut. The local museum. The local health clinic. And so much more cut.

The stories of the economy won’t be told here. They won’t be told in GDP numbers.

They will play out in the small town newspapers (that are left ) across the country.

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[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Hey MAGA, anyone want to explain to me why getting rid of the agency that has prevented another 2008-style financial crisis is a good thing?

[404 Media @404mediaco]

Hackers claim massive breach of location data giant, threaten to leak data

Gravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, selling data to the U.S. government.

🔗 https://t.co/CwxTNbkaW8

[Brad Hargreaves @bhargreaves]

Today's Crowdstrike outage reminded me of one of my favorite stories about a single point of failure

And it involves one of the most fascinating buildings in the US, the windowless AT&T Long Lines building at 33 Thomas Street in Tribeca, Manhattan 🧵

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Today a bunch of YouTubers began discussing a Browser plugin called "Honey". Their discussions revolves around the investigative research of a YouTuber named MegaLag.

Commentators are referring to it as a scam. Scam in this context isn't quite accurate enough because it is deceptive to advertisers, web stores, AND consumers, but also the browser plugin itself functions fundamentally similar to malware payloads.

tl;dr plugin extension modifies cookies on page checkout to steal commission from other people. The idea in itself is so novel, we want to introduce the entire "Honey" company into Black Mass Volume III

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[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Musk told Trump that he didn't like the bill so Trump went on Fox and said that he doesn't support it so now the provisions to help the storm victims and the farmers will be stripped out before the House votes for a continuing resolution. The storm victims and the farmers all voted for Trump so now they can enjoy getting what they voted for - elections have consequences.

[Jacksepticeye @Jacksepticeye]

I'd like to wish everyone an early Merry Fuck You and a happy no one gives a shit!

[itch.io @itchio]

I kid you not, @itchio has been taken down by @funko because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called @BrandShieldltd that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, @iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

This is honestly insane to see.
We run our gamejams through https://t.co/7rAvtDZJlG.

This is actually the cross-section of two of my most disliked things. AI and Funkopop. What a time to be alive.

[SeiichiSin @seiichisin]

@PirateSoftware For a company named BrandShield, they for sure are doing a great job at destroying not only their own but also Funko Pop's brand. I may only have the side of the story you have posted, but my hate of Funko Pops is now bigger than ever.

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

So instead of filing a DMCA claim to https://t.co/7rAvtDZJlG you sent a takedown request to their registrar. Are you incompetent or just lying about your intentions?

Wild behavior.

[Satan @s8n]

Survive out of spite. It’s the ultimate power move.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Remember, in 2022, the Democratic-majority House passed a bill to fight price gouging on gas.

EVERY single Republican in the House voted no.

They had a chance to help us with higher prices and inflation — and they ALL voted no.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Hey so huge shoutout for the media for incessantly carrying the whole “Project 2025 isn’t Trump’s plan” narrative.

[LibreOffice @LibreOffice]

LibreOffice doesn't do this. Enough said.

[Deedy @deedydas]

New workplace dystopia just dropped.

AI monitoring software now flags you if you type slower than coworkers, take >30sec breaks, or checks notes have a consistent Mon-Thu but slightly different Friday.

Bonus: It's collecting your workflow data to help automate your job away.

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

I strongly recommend turning this off.

It's unbelievable that they quietly enabled this while everyone was focused on their 'Recall' AI feature. Now they're collecting and using everyone's Microsoft Word and Excel data to train their AI models.

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

This can’t be real. While organizations are busy enforcing AI policies to protect confidential data, Microsoft quietly enables this by default and labels it ‘Your privacy matters.’ Unbelievable.

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

Fun fact;
In the outskirts of Portland is a nice little shop in an anonymous industrial park. You walk in to a little foyer with a folding card table and 9 thick, vacuum sealed Mylar bags, each about 1' long and 4" in diameter. They are sitting on top of about 70 pages of paperwork. This is the entirely daily production of this facility.
Inside are a bunch of old Mori Seiki NLX lathes - the old ones, before Mitsui bank let Dr. Mori train wreck the company with the DMG merger. Aside from a little wear on the interior paint, the 7 lathes look like they just came out of the showroom. In fact, the whole place looks like a machine tool showroom - spotlessly clean, with a thick, perfectly level urethane floor that a product photographer could use as a mirror white background plane in an Apple ad.
There are a few big things in our lives that are literally held together with a couple of fasteners. One example; every Boeing and Airbus engine is held onto the wing by only 2 bolts, and this is the shop that makes them. Boeing and Airbus both require multiple suppliers for critical components, so this is not the only shop that makes these bolts, but the nearest competitor is in Seattle (close to Boeing, but far enough away that the Cascadia Subduction Zone quake won't take both out).
The shop bay next door is equally clean, but contains a vacuum furnace and the most through inspection lab I've ever seen. X-ray and magnetic particle inspection, CMM, optical comparators. In the corner is a cherry red custom painted Lista cabinet where raw blanks are stored. An identical Lista cabinet in Green is at the opposite side of the shop. Raw material comes in, gets inspected, heat treated, inspected again, and moves from the Red to Green cabinet, collecting about half the paperwork along the way.
The blanks take about 3 days to go from a cylinder of Sandvik or Thyssen-Krupp steel into a bolt. One machine, the oldest, is used to rough the blank into a pair of concentric cylinders, the second oldest machine roughs the hex head, before the bolt is stress relieved and allowed to rest for 36 hours. Another machine finishes the hex and applies chamfers, these are final surfaces.
The final step is the threads, where things get interesting. They are cut in 3 steps; roughed, semi-finished, and finished. The secret sauce here is that a new insert is always used as the semi-finisher, and the semi-finished state is very very carefully measured to compensate that exact insert. The final finishing pass is taken in one (surprisingly healthy) hit using the data from the semi-finishing pass to be on-dimension within about 2µm. The key insight they had is that you get a better surface finish off of a tool that has already taken a couple of cuts. The threads look like you wrapped a mirror around a spiral staircase; their process is so dialed-in that their work competes with thread-grinders for dimensional and surface quality. Even so, just before inspecting with old-school thread wires at the machine - the guy running the lathe spins it at about 500rpm and reaches in with a Bright Boy stick and touches them up, runs his fingers over them, and gives them the most important QC they'll receive. This guy has been on this machine for 15 years; nearly every aircraft passenger aircraft in the sky is held together by at least one bolt that has passed his touch inspection.
Of course, the engineers in Renton or Toulouse won't just accept that Mitch in Gresham touched this bolt so it is good... so whole reams of paperwork are geared by regularly calibrated Zeiss metrology gear that does a complete dimensional inspection, another magnetic particle inspection (3 in total), and an X-ray. Having said that, Mitch rejects more than Zeiss does (about 2-3%).
You want to pay more than $45 for each of these bolts.