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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 16:02:19 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://nu.federati.net/url/288609 Alexa losing money.
I have an idea to help: every time you walk into a room that you don't control, say "Alexa, order a box of Depends extra large". -
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 10:13:13 UTC 
a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
> I have performed an unscientific survey of people who are working in coding and cybersecurity to see what language they use most often.
> The result: profanity.
farside.link/nitter/TheRealSpa… -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 02:47:27 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYVZh5kqaFg
Egg drop from space.
This looks so awesome! There's no way I'd want to spend 3-5 years trying to make this happen, but it is cool anyway. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 05:14:00 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I just thought of something else. If the company has pension plans, they'll have to be transferred to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation ( #PBGC ), an agency that seeks to protect employees' pension benefits. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 04:39:04 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@geniusmusing The lawsuits have begun. https://nu.federati.net/url/288632 [www furnituretoday com] -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 14:01:49 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
My grandson ran over to wake me up so he could tell me about the snow ❄️ on the ground and on the tree 🌳 branches. Excited 😆. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-Nov-2022 02:16:55 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Oh, they are in the Fediverse. There are plenty of them. If you look at sites like poa.st, you'll see them. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 19:39:44 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I don't know why Bolsonaro followers would be trying to contact extraterrestrials, nor why they would think that covering and uncovering their cell phones (face up atop their heads) would be seen and noticed by said extraterrestrials. Perhaps the politician said something about such things?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIypVDFXHS8
Text and speech are in pt_BR, so perhaps @lxo can understand it.
/via LiberTree -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 17:01:12 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epgXuMB1sF8 The death of famous vampire dinosaur Barneus Collins.
/via @geniusmusing -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 15:31:55 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Unanswered: will his lenders go after him for fraud if he files BK? By him making #Twitter fail so badly so quickly, I think they should be able to prove it in civil court.
Also, I wonder whether they made him put up Tesla and / or SpaceX ownership as collateral. If they only relied on Twitter assets, they'll be lucky to get 50% (and I'd guess 20% is more likely, as most of the company's value was as "a going concern"). -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 15:20:48 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCRRcWSt4I
Elon bought himself a bunch of lawsuits.
/via @geniusmusing
#Twitter #Musk #lawsuit #bankruptcy #sec #ftc -
simsa02 (simsa02@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 13:14:04 UTC 
simsa02
@es0mhi @simsa04
A more or less brief answer, on a complex topic, belatedly:1. Another reason I find this self-introduction pointless is that users in their profiles already have the opportunity to introduce themselves. Adding more to that often means adding more interests, i.e., strengthening the overall tendency that micro-blogging is about *content* when it rather is about *people*. The reification of personhood is thus increased, not dimishied.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 05:39:23 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@fu
> Inflation is not rising prices, inflation CAUSES rising prices.
Very true. I thought this was widely known, but I keep seeing policymakers who don't seem to know the basics of macroeconomics. -
simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Nov-2022 16:49:44 UTC 
simsa04
Amazon fails although it uses Wikipedia content for free, doesn't pay a fee to the authors or even the superfluous staff of Wikimeda? Apparanetly even "free as in free-speech" won't save you". :-) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 16:01:36 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Today, #GS3 (age 3.5) came running in to wake me up and to ask if he could go with me on the plane to California.
This has been a tremendous trip. It turned out to be nothing like the early plans (eleven weeks in SW #MO instead of two weeks in #SW_MO plus 1 week each in #KCMO and #Omaha #NE), but this has been a needed bonding time with the youngest set of grandkids. -
Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 22:42:10 UTC 
Ji Fu
Showcasing the DNR: Thanksgiving a good time to reflect on wild turkey’s comeback
♻️ midnr@kill-the-newsletter.com
Hearing wild turkeys gobbling and clucking as you step out into the backyard early in the morning is common for many Michiganders now, but it wasn’t always so.
As we mark the annual holiday that revolves around turkey, let’s look back and celebrate these birds’ remarkable return from near extinction, often called one of the country’s greatest wildlife conservation success stories.
There are more than 6 million wild turkeys in the United States today, but seeing – or hearing – one was rare as recently as 50 years ago.
In Michigan, wild turkeys had been plentiful prior to the arrival of settlers, with an estimated 94,000 in the state at that time.
By the 1950s, Michigan’s wild turkey population had disappeared due to unregulated hunting and habitat loss.
Bringing turkeys back from the brink
Thanks to the efforts of a committed cadre of conservationists over the last 70 years, 200,000 wild turkeys now call Michigan home. They can be found in parts of every Lower Peninsula county and areas of the Upper Peninsula.
By 1965, the turkey population had rebounded enough that hunting was allowed. Today Michigan ranks sixth in the nation for number of turkey hunters, with consistently high hunter success and satisfaction rates.
Michigan’s spring turkey season is open in every county, and fall hunting is open in many areas of the state.
“We’ve gone from extirpation of all wild turkeys in Michigan to today we have over 200,000 birds and you can hunt turkeys in every county in the state,” said Al Stewart, who retired last year after a 50-year career working in wildlife management for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 20 of those years as the DNR’s upland game bird specialist.
“It has brought so much pleasure and enjoyment to people either in viewing wild turkeys and knowing they were there or the ability to hunt in both the spring and fall.”
Early wild turkey restoration attempts in Michigan using hatchery programs failed because the turkeys raised still behaved like domesticated birds, weren’t equipped to live in the wild and succumbed to disease, predators and weather.
In the 1950s, the Michigan Department of Conservation (now the DNR) purchased 50 wild turkeys from Pennsylvania and released them in West Michigan.
Stewart was part of a later effort to reintroduce the birds. In 1983 he, along with many others, brought wild turkeys to Michigan from Iowa and Missouri and established some flocks in the southern part of the state. He was in charge of teaching DNR staff how to trap offspring of those birds to then move them to other locations in the state to help expand this restoration activity.
Ongoing efforts
Since the 1980s, the DNR has worked with many partners to complete numerous releases of trapped wild birds and improve wild turkey habitat.
“We created some of the highest-quality sustainable turkey hunting in the nation,” Stewart said. “That says a lot when your competitors for that are places like Missouri, that is the best wild turkey habitat in the world and the highest population. They don’t have deep snow.”
The DNR’s habitat improvement work in recent years has included projects like creating Michigan’s Turkey Tracts, public hunting areas with habitat intensively managed for turkeys. There are now five Turkey Tracts locations, in Allegan, Barry, Montcalm, Oakland and Tuscola counties.
“The program highlights areas of public land where the habitat has been intentionally managed for wild turkeys, creating great hunting conditions for new or seasoned hunters,” Adam Bump, the DNR’s current upland game bird specialist, said.
The National Wild Turkey Federation, at its annual Convention and Sport Show in Nashville earlier this year, presented the Michigan DNR with its Land Stewardship Award, which honors companies and/or government agencies that promote wildlife habitat management.
“Michigan DNR is at the forefront of keeping managed public lands open to the public, while maintaining high-quality habitat on these managed areas. The agency has a long history of collaborating with other state and federal agencies in larger landscape efforts to manage the public lands in Michigan. Moreover, the department has a long history of partnering with non-governmental organizations like the NWTF to accomplish habitat restoration and conservation projects on its lands,” read a NWTF news release about the award.
Scott Whitcomb, director of the DNR Office of Public Lands, accepted the award “on behalf of the DNR and the passionate sportsmen and women who contribute to and benefit from this effort.”
"In Michigan, we're blessed with an abundance of natural resources and wild places you don't come across every day, providing the backdrop for hunting, fishing and all types of outdoor recreation and relaxation. This award recognizes sound, strategic stewardship of 4.6 million acres of state-managed land in Michigan, an achievement that would not be possible without conservation partners like the National Wild Turkey Federation.”
In addition to the 4.6 million acres of DNR-managed public land open to hunting, millions of additional private-land acres are leased or enrolled in programs to allow hunting for all. Visit Michigan.gov/Hunting for more information about where to hunt.
Hunters made it possible
The DNR and partners like the NWTF put in the work behind the wild turkey’s comeback, but it would not have been possible without hunters.
Revenue to fund wild turkey management efforts – for the past several decades, now and into the future – comes directly from the sale of hunting licenses and equipment.
The Michigan Game and Fish Protection Fund, funded primarily through hunting and fishing license fees, is the DNR’s largest revenue source and is critical to its conservation work.
And since 1937, when Congress passed the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (also known as the Pittman-Robertson Act), states have received funds from manufacturer taxes on ammunition, firearms and archery equipment for wildlife restoration. These funds are distributed to the states based in part on the number of hunting licenses each state sells.
After passage of this groundbreaking legislation, conserving wild turkeys and other wildlife gained nationwide support and habitat management began.
“Sportsmen and women play an essential role in conservation efforts throughout the country,” said Rebecca Humphries, co-CEO of the National Wild Turkey Federation. “Many people don’t realize, including some hunters and anglers, that the sale of licenses and equipment – not state tax dollars – are the primary source of conservation funding for Michigan and other states.”
So, while the turkey on your Thanksgiving table may not be a wild one, take a moment to raise a glass to its feathered brethren in the wild and the conservationists and hunters who engineered their comeback -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 02:29:32 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
> ... the ban is unenforceable because it’s so old that it was essentially passed without the consent of the people.
That is certainly a bizarre argument. Instead of arguing something reasonable, such as arguing that pre-1973 laws were essentially quashed forever by the Roe v. Wade decision, he's arguing that old laws are illegal.
To be sure, old and unenforced laws can become permanently unenforceable in some circumstances, in the same way that not enforcing one's property rights for a long enough period of time can become an easement and not enforcing one's trademarks can cause them to become generic (e.g., no longer an enforceable trademark), but I don't think he's arguing that.
The other bizarre thing is that--as state Attorney General, Kaul's responsibility is to defend the state's laws in court--he's the wrong person to be suing to overturn it. Surely there's another group that he could find that had standing to sue. Planned Parenthood? NARAL? -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 02:59:45 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I think it was December of 2007 when I joined #Twitter. I liked it so much that I joined a bunch of similar services, such as #Jaiku, #Pownce, and #Plurk. In 2009, someone on Twitter told me that as an open source person, I should try an open source Twitter clone, #Identi.ca. I did, and thirteen years later, I'm still active here. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 22:23:57 UTC 
Alexandre Oliva
> So if Alexa is a colossal failure and is going to lose $10B next year, does that mean all my voice-controlled thingamabobs are gonna stop working
yes. whereas if it's a resounding success... well, same thing. this is the unavoidable fate of every remotely-controlled device you've ever thought you bought. they have to pull the plug on the old models so that you buy the new ones! after all, these services don't pay for themselves, right?
wrong, you guessed it. the services do pay for themselves, as they sell the data they collect from you through the devices, but who'd have thought that would ever be enough to motivate them to keep the servers running, when they have the power to unilaterally brick the stuff you paid for?
freedom-respecting devices, programs and services are the only way to avoid this kind of trap. fool yourself believing it doesn't have to be that way at your own peril. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Nov-2022 18:01:11 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@gnu2 I tend to work in smaller cities, like Salina Kansas and Starkville Mississippi, or in state capitals. Many of them aren't horrible, but neither are they particular enjoyable. That's when sodas and other drinks become attractive.
When you drink from a mountain stream (or a bottle of Fiji water) there is a deep pleasure in every sip. You don't want any other beverages, just water.
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