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Measures like GDP, in addition to not measuring the thing that you care about, may not measure the thing that they think they're measuring.
For example, apparently the US GDP grew by 2.55% in 2025 (some things are not fully reported, disclaimers about partial data apply). But this is measured in US dollars. The US dollar is down 11% against the EURO over the same period. It's down almost 9% against the British Pound. Down over 4% against the Canadian dollar. It's down over 4% against the Chinese Yuan, a currency issued by a central bank that intentionally controls the quantity to keep its value closely tied to a dollar.
Measured in pretty much any unit except US dollars, the US GDP has shrunk since Trump took office. If you measured the US economy in Euros, Pounds, or Yuan, the US economy meets most definitions of being in recession.
But the fact that most of this is hidden in the devaluation of the dollar and reporters never pay attention what units things are reported in.
Note that this also applies to a load of share prices. Quite often, growth in share price of multinational companies is actually a decline in the value of the currency that the company's shares are traded in (see: most reporting about MSFT last year).
not sure if this makes sense but preview app mockup. we reuse "recents" thing for examples when there's no recents
Esta nevando!! solo que no esta nevando por aca.
Donald Trump vormt zelf het grootste gevaar ter wereld en laat vervolgens iedereen – van Canada tot Europa – betalen voor hun eigen veiligheid. Daar is een woord voor: maffiapraktijken. Hoog tijd dat we ophouden met meebuigen, schrijft hoofdredacteur Rob Wijnberg in zijn nieuwste column.
Lees hier: http://corr.es/72fb82
さて、今日はこの辺で失礼します。
一名48歲香港居民男子涉於2008年經中介安排，與一名內地居民在內地締結假婚姻，以協助對方取得訪港簽注及香港居留身分，事後收取5,000元報酬。該名男子被控一項串謀詐騙罪，昨（22日）在沙田裁判法院被裁定罪名成立，判監11個月10日。
入境事務處表示，調查行動組早前跟進一宗假結婚案件期間，發現涉案婚姻真確性成疑，遂對被告展開調查。被告在警誡下承認，自己按中介安排與涉案內地居民假結婚，以協助對方取得相關簽注及身分。
入境處續稱，案件中涉案的內地居民「假配偶」早於2011年已被控串謀詐騙罪，並被判監12個月。入境處正繼續調查其他涉案人士，不排除有更多人被捕。
silly yellow face,
髪切ったし昇給した（今週の超ハイライト）
Now that I have my Minio => SeaweedFS migration for my Mastodon instance metalhead.club under control, I have written a few words about it in my blog.
https://thomas-leister.de/mastodon-switch-minio-s3-seaweedfs/
Perhaps this will be helpful for other administrators who are looking for something new because the Minio S3 server is no longer being maintained.
I pay particular attention to the difficulties I encountered due to the large number of files (which caused problems).
So far, SeaweedFS S3 has been working wonderfully for me!
My thanks go to 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli, whose blog entry inspired me to use SeaweedFS:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/
Nachdem ich meine Minio => SeaweedFS Migration für meine Mastodon Instanz metalhead.club nun im Griff habe, habe ich ein paar Worte dazu in meinen Blog geschrieben.
https://thomas-leister.de/mastodon-switch-minio-s3-seaweedfs/
Vielleicht ist das ja hilfreich für andere Admins, die wegen des nicht mehr gepflegten Minio S3 Servers auf der Suche nach etwas Neuem sind.
Ein besonderes Augenmerk lege ich auf meine Schwierigkeiten wegen der Vielzahl an Dateien (was Probleme verursacht hat).
Bisher funktioniert SeaweedFS S3 bei mir wunderbar!
Mein Dank geht an @stefanoStefano Marinelli, der mich mit seinem Blogeintrag dazu angeregt hat, SeaweedFS einzusetzen:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/
Does anyone have the core #Minnesota strike web page?
Also https://www.standwithminnesota.com/ seems to be down, is it down for other folks?
Start the day with a healthy salad 🥗
total infosec.exchange extermination*
* excluding cat salad 
It’s interesting that the Canadian Press thought it was necessary to indicate that Mark Carney is on the right in this picture.
Wenn die Zaubernuss ihre ersten Fingerchen austreckt, verkündet sie das baldige Ende der tristen und farblosen #Zeit 🤗
Now that I have my Minio => SeaweedFS migration for my Mastodon instance metalhead.club under control, I have written a few words about it in my blog.
https://thomas-leister.de/mastodon-switch-minio-s3-seaweedfs/
Perhaps this will be helpful for other administrators who are looking for something new because the Minio S3 server is no longer being maintained.
I pay particular attention to the difficulties I encountered due to the large number of files (which caused problems).
So far, SeaweedFS S3 has been working wonderfully for me!
My thanks go to @stefanoStefano Marinelli, whose blog entry inspired me to use SeaweedFS:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/
Nachdem ich meine Minio => SeaweedFS Migration für meine Mastodon Instanz metalhead.club nun im Griff habe, habe ich ein paar Worte dazu in meinen Blog geschrieben.
https://thomas-leister.de/mastodon-switch-minio-s3-seaweedfs/
Vielleicht ist das ja hilfreich für andere Admins, die wegen des nicht mehr gepflegten Minio S3 Servers auf der Suche nach etwas Neuem sind.
Ein besonderes Augenmerk lege ich auf meine Schwierigkeiten wegen der Vielzahl an Dateien (was Probleme verursacht hat).
Bisher funktioniert SeaweedFS S3 bei mir wunderbar!
Mein Dank geht an @stefanoStefano Marinelli, der mich mit seinem Blogeintrag dazu angeregt hat, SeaweedFS einzusetzen:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
雨晴いくまでの道中も良いスポットはあるものだ
#Misskey写真部
For anybody still doubting that the only use-case for Tether and other "stablecoins" is crime
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irans-central-bank-acquired-507m-155649104.html
POV: your tractor can’t start
自分の雨晴海岸フォルダから特選を放出
#Misskey写真部
Question for the #Fediverse
Imagine, if you could do something on the Fediverse after you died, using your letter of wishes/will.
What would you do?
For example, you could leave a nice public status but also send DMs to friends. Maybe post fav pix on Pixelfed a compilation of fav tunes on Peertube/Funkwhale?
Heck even start a grief bot for a short while to help those who are in shock?
Thoughts?
Best may end up in #fosdem2026 with credit - https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VGXMXE-machine_readable_wishes/
둘째앤가바나
微妙に散歩してきた
Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system
x60 magnification, BSE, taken on Zeiss DSM directly.
Zoomed in, taken via external scan. Sorry, no scale, need to write/find a better conversion tool.
High of -8°F/-22°C (without the wind) today, perfect temperature for some outdoor activities in Minnesota! ❄️
큰 거 온다
일본 KFC에서 치킨 먹기는 실천하지 못했습니다. 
보쿠노
보쿠노
호 러 빔
Writing First, Tooling Second
Link: https://susam.net/writing-first-tooling-second.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675745
re: quick links filling it, basically i think they should teach you to use the box since the box is the primary interface you'll use in the future
Listen to the new Poppy album, or else...
also not 100% sure how i feel about having a list of people there, might feel like an "exclusive club" or something. i realize this is tricky, i'm sorry! i don't have an obvious solution
망망대해 한가운데 에서 즐기는 연합우주 생활 
Turns out that having to repeatedly go out into very cold air isn’t the best way to recover from pneumonia.
A #ThankGNU! to Holger Kienle, Jared Flatow, and Jean-Francois Blavier for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m
Everybody loves beans 🫘
ioカレンダー応募したよ～！！！！！！
ドーナツの穴 1500 kg たべたい
치킨하니까 생각났는데 닭다리 안 좋아하시는 분 계세요??
Donald Trump vormt zelf het grootste gevaar ter wereld en laat vervolgens iedereen – van Canada tot Europa – betalen voor hun eigen veiligheid. Daar is een woord voor: maffiapraktijken. Hoog tijd dat we ophouden met meebuigen, schrijft hoofdredacteur Rob Wijnberg in zijn nieuwste column.
Lees hier: http://corr.es/72fb82
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
MJ+
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
とるねど
🕊️
Dr. Anna Latour
wakest ⁂
糸葱ににか 
