Regarding #USPol: I have reread 2024 analysis of project 2025 policies by #JPMorgan. They clearly state that conservatively, the #USA will tank 0.7% GDP (it's worse by current analysis) and most of it will hit import-heavy industries, implying that industries like tech won't see an *immediate* detrimental effect. They state, as clearly, that by conservative estimates, the impact on tariffed economies shall be more than twice weaker. (Again, corrected estimates increase the gap, but that's not the point here).

Key observation – it was clear to everyone that this will negatively impact American economy, especially people of low income. Do you think it wasn't clear to trump's policy makers?

If you think it was, what do you think was the actual purpose of this policy?

While we're at it, have a look at distribution of incomes of people conscripted to russian army to die in the meatgrinder (not like I have a compassion for them).

I think that the dots are easy to connect.

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**SeaFury** @SeaFury@aus.social · Apr 3

Apr 3

SeaFury @SeaFury@aus.social

@ibk We are so much more than a holiday isle though! Thanks for the deep dive into Tassie number plates. I see old ones all the time and notice the different rhythms of numbers and letters. So it's very interesting to hear the approximate timeline of when they were used and why they changed. I'm a numbers nerd!

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 3

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 3

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Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Also, I am so tired to hear from the citizens of aggressor countries like russia or israel the argument of "oh, but I have family here, oh I am just a clerk / janitor / blah-blah-blah".

Sure, moving is hard as fuck. But do they actually think that it compares even slightly to how hard it is to be displaced by war? Do people in #Ukraine and #Gaza tell to russian genocide boys "hold on, I have a job in Bakhmut, can you please do genocide elsewhere while my contract is ongoing"?

No. They pack their bags and leave wherever is less unsafe.

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 3

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 3

Apr 3

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/03/the-gaza-paramedic-killings-a-visual-timeline

If your country uses military bulldozers on empty roads against humanitarian vehicles, please do everything you can to switch your country or, if you can't, resist.

It's not some sort of abstract idea. Descent into fascism ends with Gestapo at your doorstep, even if you're "loyal" and even if you have "nothing to hide".

It's ridiculous that the people who were meant to "never forget" the most forgot first.

The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline

A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave

www.theguardian.com

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**Rust Language** @rust@social.rust-lang.org · Apr 3

Apr 3

Rust Language @rust@social.rust-lang.org

Rust 1.86.0 has been released!

This release adds trait upcasting, get_disjoint_mut on slices and hashmaps, #[target_feature] for safe functions, debug assertions for null pointers, Vec::pop_if, and more!

Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/03/Rust-1.86.0.html

**Jons Mostovojs** · Apr 3

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**LSM.lv (unofficial)** @LSM_rss@toot.lv · Apr 3

Apr 3

LSM.lv (unofficial) @LSM_rss@toot.lv

Ziņu portāls LSM.lv aicina pievienoties savai komandai ekonomikas ziņu redaktoru-žurnālistu. https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/03.04.2025-lsmlv-mekle-ekonomikas-zinu-redaktoru-i-zurnalistu-i.a594092/?utm_source=mastodon

**Jons Mostovojs** · Apr 2

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**Minnesota Spy Club** @MNSpy@mastodon.online · Apr 2

Apr 2

Minnesota Spy Club @MNSpy@mastodon.online

Brief primer on the Special Operations Branches and Detachments of the Office of Strategic Services:

#OSS #WW2

https://arsof-history.org/oss/index.html

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

A Primer on the Special Operations Branches and Detachments of the Office of Strategic Services

arsof-history.org

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 2

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 2

Apr 2

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I need a great personal account in the #UK / #London. Please give suggestions from experience.

**Jons Mostovojs** · Apr 1

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**William** @wm@mast.wmclark.com · Apr 1

Apr 1

William @wm@mast.wmclark.com

Senator Cory Booker #MoralCourage #resistance #democracy #fearlessness #MoralMoment

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**Carolyn** @CStamp@mastodon.social · Apr 2

Apr 2

Carolyn @CStamp@mastodon.social

He yields the floor at 25 hours and 5 minutes. :)

Show thread

**Jons Mostovojs** · Apr 1

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**Open Rights Group** @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Apr 1

Apr 1

Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

Encryption is essential for cybersecurity

The lack of protections for it in the UK Cyber Security Bill, coupled with the UK's encryption-breaching order against Apple, shows a lack of seriousness about the threats we face.

Sign and share our petititon to send a message

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted

#e2ee #encryption #cybersecurity #cybersecuritybill #security #ukpolitics #ukpol

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 1

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Apr 1

Apr 1

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

I can't express how happy I am to be working on #GEOsurge.

I hope I will have the time to post things I find important on #mastodon still, but no promises. I barely find the time to sleep these days.

xoxo

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 30

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**Gernot Wagner** @gwagner@fediscience.org · Mar 30

Mar 30

Gernot Wagner @gwagner@fediscience.org

define "greenwashing"

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 31

**Jons Mostovojs** @jonn@social.doma.dev · Mar 31

Mar 31

Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

My grandma's neighbours were killed one by one and buried in a mass grave by #nazis. They were Jewish.

Today, #Israel, not Germany is a #nazi state. There is no way around it.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un

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**Terrybot** @terrybot@frikiverse.zone · Mar 31

Mar 31

Terrybot @terrybot@frikiverse.zone

Oh dear, I'm feeling political today. It's just that it's dawned on me that 'zero tolerance' only seems to mean putting extra police in poor, run-down areas, and not in the Stock Exchange.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 29

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**JA Westenberg** @Daojoan@mastodon.social · Mar 29

Mar 29

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 28

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**Paul Cantrell** @inthehands@hachyderm.io · Mar 28

Mar 28

Paul Cantrell @inthehands@hachyderm.io

Holy shit.

Just wow, wow, holy shit:

Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?

I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 29

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**Minnesota Spy Club** @MNSpy@mastodon.online · Mar 29

Mar 29

Minnesota Spy Club @MNSpy@mastodon.online

Don't know what to do or were to start in resisting the MAGA authoritarian takeover? Need to start small? Check out this link:

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important.

https://thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lonely-but-beautiful-actions

#Resistance

HT: @garrettbucks

**Jons Mostovojs** · Mar 28

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**Thiago Ferrer Morini** @tferrer@journa.host · Mar 28

Mar 28

Thiago Ferrer Morini @tferrer@journa.host

@samlitzinger Just remembered what happened when Silvio 'Bunga Bunga' Berlusconi, Italy's Trump (or, to be more precise, Trump is America's Berlusconi) died: his heirs called specialists to appraise his art collection, which occupied a WAREHOUSE, and the recommendation of those exquisite Italian experts was "burn it all"

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67162602