Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴
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Elbows up! 🇨🇦 An IT Professional with interests in economics, science, history and technology. Guelph, Ontario. Born at 319 ppm [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@jockr on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A story headlined, Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland The president said he would pursue designating antifa a "foreign terrorist organization" and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed. President Donald Trump on Wednesday looked to bolster his public case for deploying the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, cities where he claims Democrat politicians have failed to protect journalists and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from people whom he sees as left-wing domestic terrorists.

Trump said during a televised meeting at the White House that he would pursue designating antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization” — a label that would allow for key financial and legal penalties because foreign entities are not protected by the First Amendment. Proponents of antifa — a political protest movement composed of unaffiliated groups — militantly oppose fascism, right-wing ideologies and are often anti-capitalist or anti-state.

Trump also repeated a call he had made earlier in the day for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, to be jailed, accusing them without evidence of “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

His statements and other remarks given by top aides during a 2½-hour event laid out a legal and moral case for the administration’s push to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Designated foreign terrorist groups can face financial sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department. The Justice Department can prosecute supporters under enhanced charges of providing “material support” to a terrorist group.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
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‘No wonder they don’t like speed cameras’: #toronto mayor Olivia Chow comments on Ford cabinet vehicles fines

“Documents previously obtained by Global News show vehicles assigned to Ford’s cabinet ministers racked up 23 speed camera tickets in the past three years, totalling more than $3,300 in […]
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein
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Update: Hungarians are not super-impressed with ChatGPT's spoken Hungarian. To them it sounds like broken Hungarian with an American accent. Partly, they suspect, because the language is not a priority. Of course it's also a new capability that will mature. The fact that it's possible at all […]
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A Lorenz Teletype Shows Us Its Secrets | Hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2025/10/07/a-lorenz-teletype-shows-us-its-secrets/
A Lorenz Teletype Shows Us Its Secrets
When we use the command line on Linux, we often refer to it as a _terminal_. It’s a word with a past invoking images of serial terminals, rows of green-screened machines hooked up to a central computer somewhere. Those in turn were electronic versions of mechanical teletypes, and it’s one of these machines we’re bringing you today. [DipDoT] has a Lorenz teletype from the 1950s, and he’s taking us through servicing and cleaning it, eventually showing us its inner workings. The machine in question had been in storage for many years, but remained in good condition. To be this long out of use though meant it needed a thorough clean, so he sets about oiling the many hundreds of maintenance points listed in a Lorenz manual. It’s a pleasant surprise for us to see keyboard and printer unit come away from the chassis for servicing so easily, and by stepping it through its operation step by step we can see how it works in detail. It even incorporates an identifier key — think of it as a mechanical ROM that stores a sequence of letters — which leads him to believe it may have come from a New York news office. The video is below the break, and makes for an interesting watch. He’s going to use it with a relay computer, but if you don’t have one of those there are more modern ways to do it.
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“If the #US becomes even more authoritarian, we will be pushed further,” said Ward Elcock, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and a former deputy minister of national defense. “They will want more subservience on #trade.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat... #Canada
Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?
Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.
www.bloomberg.com