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Zac Spitzer

@zackster.bsky.social

Politics, science, tech #Lucee / #cfml Aussie from Melbourne, living in Berlin https://github.com/zspitzer

368 Followers  |  617 Following  |  551 Posts  |  Joined: 11.09.2023  |  1.7816

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Ahhh, so uBlock light doesn't rely on indexed DB then? 🀣

05.08.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marksβ€”it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

03.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7873    πŸ” 3065    πŸ’¬ 407    πŸ“Œ 672

This is why the US didn't sign up to the ICC

03.08.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Aussie, it's odd hearing how some American English is pronounced, inquiry is a classic

03.08.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dunno why I've somehow started to title jira tickets without capitalising the first word. Grammatically I'm torn, but it feels oddly less aggressive?

Jira is basically hell without drugs or the other fun stuff isn't it?

02.08.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lived experience seems to have way more affect on public opinion, remember all the boom stats under Biden yet lots of grumpy voters

02.08.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing to learn all the jobs data in the USA was compiled by just a single person! Wow

01.08.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

01.08.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12148    πŸ” 4804    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 558

Golden Dome sounds rather inert TBH

01.08.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would you like me to hallucinate (n/n)?

01.08.2025 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd really like to find a fucking LLM which answers questions with a simple I DON'T KNOW instead of bullshitting like a lack luster junior developer destined for project management

01.08.2025 06:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

it's very cyber cyber cyber desk jockey

01.08.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I can remember going to reset my password at the start of my career in the 90s and accidentally resetting everyone's password to mine, that was fun.

31.07.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it would be interesting to know if any German residents got them, NAZI stuff is highly illegal, even twitter used to block it, no idea about xitter

31.07.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Law That Could Blow Open Trump Antitrust Corruption Lobbyist meddling to get a critical merger case approved could face sunlight thanks to a 1974 law called the Tunney Act, which allows a judge to investigate the outcome.

prospect.org/power/2025-0...

30.07.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 285    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

have you tried listening to a podcast about australian politics?

30.07.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fucken hell mate, glad you can still type!

30.07.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was very confused by the German locales swapping . and , with numbers the first time I encountered it!

29.07.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Try using tr, Turkish is a world of pain due to how i gets handled when converting case!

29.07.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hasn't the USD EUR exchange rate hike already exceeded that?

27.07.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love it, but I do have feelings about fucking SkyDance and the whole CBS Colbert shenanigans

27.07.2025 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The German word for the likes of him "Rechtsextremen"

26.07.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Translated, my sources are leaving and I might need to do some legwork

26.07.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

According to the report, Capriglione, who wrote the abortion trigger ban bill that automatically outlawed abortions in Texas with the fall of Roe, paid for multiple abortions for his mistress, who he met when she was a 19 year old stripper

25.07.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 977    πŸ” 404    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 38

BRB, I'm Full releasing the Epstein files

24.07.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone pardoned can't take the fifth?

24.07.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a trick/shortcut to scroll to the top of the page with Android Chrome?

24.07.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something something safari bug

24.07.2025 08:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The US satire cartoon show South Park secured a five-year deal worth $1.5β€―billion with Paramount Global. They began their season with this clip, challenging Trump to sue them.

24.07.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7650    πŸ” 2583    πŸ’¬ 212    πŸ“Œ 361

We have always been at war with East Asia... (Tesla)

23.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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