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Anyone who was following politics in 2007 and 2008 knows exactly what role the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) played in supporting candidate Barack Obama.Sundance (The Last Refuge)
Cranes are indispensable in the construction, shipping, and industrial sectors, performing heavy lifting with precision and power. However, when crane brakes fail, the potential for disaster is significant. Such failures can disrupt projects, increase costs, and, most critically, endanger lives. Understanding the reasons behind brake failures and implementing preventive measures is crucial to ensure safety and operational efficiency.
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Crane brakes endure significant heat, especially when handling heavy loads, rapid cycles, or steep inclines. This heat, generated by friction, can cause brake fade, reducing stopping power and potentially deforming components. Operators sometimes push cranes beyond their limits, resulting in overheating. To prevent heat-related failures, allow cranes to cool between lifts and consider upgrading to parts designed for higher temperatures. A knowledgeable crane parts supplier can recommend components with superior heat resistance.
Cranes operate in harsh environments, often exposed to rain, snow, and salty air. These conditions promote rust, which can damage brake components. While surface rust may seem minor, it can infiltrate hydraulics or seize calipers, rendering brakes ineffective. Regular maintenance is essential to prevent rust-related issues. Keeping brakes clean and dry, and using protective coatings, can extend their lifespan. Investing in quality crane parts from a trusted supplier ensures durability and reliability.
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Crane brake failures have far-reaching consequences. They can disrupt entire sites, incur significant repair costs, and undermine crew confidence. Most importantly, they pose serious safety risks. Ensuring reliable crane brakes is not just a technical necessity; itโs a commitment to safety and efficiency. Regular maintenance, careful operation, and the use of high-quality parts from a trusted crane parts supplier are essential strategies for preventing brake failures.
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I expect claims that AI will usher in miraculous breakthroughs like a cure for cancer will fall by the wayside for practical reasons similar to claims of UBI as a panacea for AI driven job loss.
We are cutting science funding and driving scientists out of the country. We canโt ChatGPT our way to scientific breakthroughs without scientists or science research.
Just eliminated another part of my digital guitar recording chain: amp modeling. As someone who's really into tube amps I could never get friends with modeling. Sure there are great sounding plug-ins or products but for me the digital domain is more usable in the realm of effects. For amps, not so much.
The elimination consists of a fairly small box that sits between my amp speaker output and audio interface input.
#GearSquad #TubeAmps #GuitarAmps #Guitar #HomeRecording #GuitarAmp
A continued stream of contradictory news stories on the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal negotiations have been flying back and forth for days. #Iran hasn't yet abandoned the deal, despite what headlines say, but #Trump's waffling could prove disastrous.
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A continued a stream of contradictory news stories on the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal negotiations have been flying back and forth for days. Iran hasnโt yet abandoned the deal, despite what headlines say, but Trumpโs waffling could prove disastrous.Mitchell Plitnick (Mondoweiss)
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Anyone got an opinion on Altered Carbon?
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*The tallest mountain in this world -- if you measure its distance from the center of the Earth
Increasingly, surveillance is being normalized and integrated in our lives. Under the guise of convenience, applications and features are sold to us as being the new better way to do things. While some might be useful, this convenience is a Trojan horse. The cost of it is the continuous degradation of our privacy rights, with all that that entails.
โThis represents a remarkable evolution in the governmentโs case. In 2022: not worth a speeding ticket. In 2025: international human trafficking kingpin.โ
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The most telling detail in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga isnโt what the DOJ is claiming โ itโs what a federal prosecutor refused to do. Ben Schrader, a 15-year veteran of the U.S. AttorโฆTechdirt
Neo-nazi group with clear Russian links expands activity in the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far rightBen Makuch (The Guardian)
How did Virgilโs words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefactsโฆThe Public Domain Review
how far off do we think this is from being the default shell startup on every platform
You're probably wondering if there was a proud Dalek at Portsmouth Pride and I'm here to let you know that yes, there was a proud Dalek at Portsmouth Pride.
#Pride #LGBTQIA #Portsmouth #PortsmouthPride #UKPride #Dalek #DoctorWho #Photography
What they're saying is "I want *you* to be paid less to make worse software".
They, as always, imagine themselves as the one paying less, not the one being paid less.
My souring take is Elon ends up having to be Trumpโs most subservient simp and attack dog as he realizes that all his power is in a few balloons Trump could just pop.
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This is why Democrats should seize this moment to aim everything we got at Elon, who hates Democrats more than heโll ever hate Don.
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After French dockers refused to handle Israeli munitions, Italian dock workers are also refusing to let the ship dock at the port of Genoa.Arthur T (socialist Worker)
Pour terminer cette journee du samedi 7 juin 2025
Et toujours en l'honneur de #Cadeau
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Random reminder to not pitch the jar and especially brine/pickling liquid from your jar of pickled jalapeรฑos.
Just add cut pieces of carrots and jalapenos and small/Persian cucumbers - and some weeks later you'll be super rewarded!
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Creator of Hypercard, Bill Atkinson, presents to the New York Macintosh Users Group to basic concepts underlying this landmark innovation in personal computing, illustrating with examples. This clipSoundCloud
Winning HyperCard stacks from the 1989 SuperStacks contest.Presented exactly as the CD-ROM disk image. Navigate to the SuperStacks folder to see the winning...Internet Archive
I don't have a lot of heroes, but Bill Atkinson was one of them.
I had the good fortune of meeting him while we were both working on our first iPad apps. He was as gracious, smart, curious, and funny as you'd think.
A few years after that I wrote him a love letter:
He's no longer with us, but his ideas will live on forever, and for that I'm grateful.
We are dedicated to the seemingly nonexistent art of creating software for your mini pocket computer that actually looks good.iconfactory.com
LAPD coming out en masse to protect ICE from the people of LAโinstead of the other way aroundโsays a lot about the morality of the LAPD and of city government. It says a lot about what non-cooperation with federal law enforcement actually means in practice.
Mayor Bass Has a strongly worded statement condemning the ICE raid, as if the city could not possibly have done anything to prevent it from happening. There is no such thing as non-cooperation with ICE as long as local police can be called out to fight the federal government's battles for them.
The bare minimum of non-cooperation would be just letting it happen, hands off, which clearly is not what went down yesterday. This was active facilitation. What would it look like for local governments to actively interfere with ICE raids? It's hard to imagine.
Last year, the Anderson v. TikTok ruling imperiled Section 230 defenses in the 3d Cir. & across the country. TikTok didn't appeal to SCOTUS.
On remand, the Anderson case has now been transferred into the Social Media Addiction MDL in ND Cal
Happy Caturday everyone!
#caturday #LGBTQ #pride #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #FediCats #pridemonth #HappyPride #LGBTPride
okay so someone explain me this.
if my webpage has php code, the visitor cant see it, bc (from my understanding) php is executed server side so the code does not need to be sent to the visitor's machine, only whatever return value(s), if any.
but javascript is executed in a visitor's browser. so i feel like, all the code should be readily attainable, just like the html or css markup.
but if i try to pull up some corpo.com/feedmeyourdata.js i get like some js code and then a lot of unicode gibberish which i assume is binary.
why can one not see the js code that is being executed on their own machine?
talking to progressives is like
#Ecuador๐ดEl Movimiento #Pachakutik decidiรณ expulsar a los asambleรญstas de esa organizaciรณn que voten a favor del mal llamado proyecto de urgencia econรณmica de "Solidaridad Nacional", que ha sido denunciado por sectores sociales de promover el #TerrorismoDeEstado.
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#gaza #FreedomFlotilla
#IsraelTerroristState
@palestine
"Israel has announced plans to intercept the Freedom Flotilla and suggested that if Greta's vessel tries to deliver aid to Gaza it will come under attack...I mean it's not like Greta is gonna pull out an assault rifle and go all Rambo, is it?"
"Israel has a right to defend itself from baby food and medicine, and if that means killing the people delivering aid, so be it"
"Greta is everything that Israel hates"
XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11
Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibreโa fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence. Weigelt says: "Xorg has been captured by Redhat, in order to destroy competition. The necessary consequence is a fork, namely more competition."
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Spend this Saturday discovering some new music with the latest iteration of Other People's Music. This entry offers fascinating takes on art pop, chamber music, dubby post rock, blown-out post hardcore & hyper chiptunes.
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Someone came to me and said that their phone said that a phone call they were on was recorded. They're an immigrant and was talking to their sibling who is also an immigrant. They were on cell (old android), sibling was on a land line.
It's possible they touched the wrong icon in their phone app that did the recording.
Has anyone heard of this being done by the guvmint? It makes no sense they would inform you they recorded but I have to ask.
I probably have no useful advice, but I'm trying to clarify... They got a notification on their phone that this phonecall was recorded?
I know some versions of IOS and certain android phones have call recording capabilities. There are probably apps one can get, and I believe Samsung included something at one point (no idea of they do currently). So, it's entirely *possible* that this person did it themselves. For peace of mind, I'd be going through every app on my phone trying to figure out what app or setting was involved and I would do away with it.
I suspect that you'd never know if the Good Ol Boy Gestapo did it.
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speaking of odiously evil #palantir, their ceo is featured in this messy, noisy, 'song'
the context is him gleefully, and ecstatically, bragging on a shareholder call about doing evil for profit
i hesitated to post this because it feels weird to use such a despicable situation to promote my music, but otoh, i wrote this as a protest song, so of course, i hope some people will listen to it
This is very, very big:
Those are some of the most significant people that have put WordPress where it is right now. And this is a huge step towards breaking the Monopoly held by one of the project cofounders.
And I still don't know how and what does it means, but the Linux foundation backing it up feels huge.
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UK and France abandon plans to recognise Palestinian state at conference middleeasteye.net/news/uk-and-โฆ
The UK and France will abandon previous plans to recognise a Palestinian state at an upcoming conference, according to diplomats.Alex MacDonald (Middle East Eye)
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