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2024-07-14 05:43:46

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
— Timothy Snyder. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Author of *Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin* (2010).
https://lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to-obey-in-advance/

2024-06-19 17:26:35

When I moved to Texas in 1989, I learned that they had an official state holiday called Juneteenth.
Happy Juneteenth!
https://www.texasobserver.org/a-visit-to-galveston-the-birthplace-of-juneteenth/

2024-06-11 23:14:36

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@npub1x7f…hwwr
Just kidding! Liberals will defend nothing to the death except property.

2024-06-04 10:56:18

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Their every accusation is an admission.

2024-05-03 06:16:06

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@npub1v77…cpyk
I apologize for using the wrong pronoun for you.

2024-04-28 04:39:24

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@npub1nn8…8sed
B-52s - Private Idaho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n_Tg8iHwZ8
#MastodonMixTape

2024-04-24 23:43:30

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@npub1p9t…mltx
“What starts here changes the world.
It starts with you and what you do each day.
... No, not like that!”

2024-04-24 23:43:26

“What starts here changes the world.
It starts with you and what you do each day.
... No, not like that!”
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/328/376/512/938/456/original/2eef18dee60075d3.jpeg

2024-04-24 23:35:20

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@npub1p9t…mltx
“I'll just put on a hat with a red star on it and totally blend in with the kids …"

2024-04-23 00:37:13

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@npub1s7w…sevu Universities and Google.

2024-04-19 01:54:34

Just when I think I can no longer be shocked by the astonishing evil of the Israeli government.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24261522.israeli-drones-playing-sounds-babies-crying-opening-fire/

2024-03-30 19:32:22

😳
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/186/067/458/619/219/original/3ba0dc54706bbfd2.jpeg

2024-03-20 01:12:48

@npub1eee…e209
“Meta should be required to offer a no-tracking version of Instagram and Facebook completely free of charge. Meta could show ads to those users, but not the sort of ads that actually generate money.”
Don’t you do non-personalized ads at Daring Fireball? Do they really not generate money?

2024-03-17 16:26:53

Looking forward to AI being used as excuse when police “mistakenly" kill an anti-pipeline activist or Cop City protestor.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

2024-02-19 22:45:48

Ars Technica | Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

2024-02-09 03:47:27

Mozilla, the non-profit behind the Firefox web browser, today lost their $6 million/year CEO. Mitchell Baker will keep her other role as Executive Chairperson of the group’s board of directors. In 2018 she was paid $2.4 million. So her pay more than doubled while Firefox’s share of web browsers and also revenue declined.
Her replacement is an inside hire of Laura Chambers who has been on the Mozilla board of directors since 2021.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/09/mozilla_ceo_mitchell_baker_departs/

2024-01-11 22:07:43

Friend of mine sent me this. But it's too unrealistic to be funny. All the survivors are filming in landscape.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/739/355/785/735/925/original/7d21cf089ac2de33.jpeg

2023-12-29 03:09:56

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@npub19dj…n6qc
Thanks for all the cute you inject into my timeline to break up the genocide and oppression! ☺️

2023-12-29 02:38:36

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@npub19dj…n6qc 🎵Ba-by orca doo-doot doo-doot da doo 🎵

2023-12-22 07:19:10

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@npub1rr4…h68k Y’all, the first time you use an acronym in any piece of writing you should spell it out. I got four paragraphs into this piece and I still have no idea who the “CCF” are.

2023-12-17 23:18:10

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@npub1a3a…9x3m @npub19dj…n6qc Cat, you should know better than to get between me and scones.

2023-12-15 06:00:56

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Perfectly demonostrating what they mean by “anarcho-capitalist”. Chef's kiss.

2023-12-08 07:01:15

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@npub16uk…pv7k
Oh, you are so sophisticated and savvy. How can my mere information possibly compare to your attitude.

2023-12-08 04:38:11

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@npub1sqf…5skr
There’s a delicious smörgåsbord of wrong takes in the replies here.
No one on this planet hates Facebook more than me. None of you. But I can admit that it’s good that this happened. End of story. Just good.
No, Facebook does not still have the content of messages, that’s what end-to-end encryption means. The sender: yes. The recipient: yes. The servers in between: no. Facebook is using the Signal protocol, and that’s the gold standard.
Facebook will have whatever metadata that the protocol generates. All protocols generate some, otherwise the message can’t be delivered. I have questions about whether Facebook fully minimized the metadata, but not the content.
But you blowhards’ just keep telling the EFF (FFS!) how this is actually bad. I’m sure you’re more informed on this than they are.
@npub16uk…pv7k @npub13ey…e45a @npub1sx4…nzhd

2023-12-07 00:10:01

This is the most Oregon science I have ever seen. It combines brewing coffee and vulcanism. Two things we have in abundance.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/study-why-a-spritz-of-water-before-grinding-coffee-yields-less-waste-tastier-espresso/

2023-11-22 03:09:34

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@npub1mmf…eknq @npub1nnh…v3dt
Brave people. 🖤

2023-11-16 06:45:45

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@npub1p9t…mltx @npub1lru…3rey
This person either thinks we all live in the same city, or sweeps only happen in one of them.

2023-11-15 23:43:18

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@npub19dj…n6qc
Oh, thanks! Here I am chatting at a bot. 🫥

2023-11-15 23:15:04

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@npub1vz8…708j @npub19dj…n6qc Interesting, this is similar to navigating a web page with a command-line browser like Lynx. So are you saying that the screen readers will read the URL out or the anchor text?
Is this a format that will work better? (In Markdown syntax)
“Read more at the [EFF’s web site][https:eff.org)!”

2023-11-10 23:42:28

Students stage walkout in solidarity with Palestine at the University of Texas at Austin.
https://thedailytexan.com/2023/11/10/photo-gallery-palestine-solidarity-walkout/

2023-11-04 20:00:31

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Was the water cut off in Gaza only to Hamas? Was the electricity to Gaza only cut off for Hamas? Did the hospital the IDF bombed only contain Hamas? Were the convoy of ambulances bombed from the air only Hamas?

2023-11-03 01:46:23

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@npub1aka…zzz2 @npub13n4…3h2h Maybe they’re not more clever, but the judge and prosecutor will make you stop dancing around and answer the question.

2023-10-31 00:30:28

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@npub1p9t…mltx
Punch them early and often.

2023-10-05 23:26:23

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@npub1tps…9rmt
Citation needed

2023-10-04 22:18:08

Check this out. Thief approaches door of house with car parked out front. He is holding a wire antenna. If the car owner has left their keys near the front door, the wire antenna will boost the signal. Success! The key fob is near the door. Signal boosted. This causes the car to think the key is very near to it, and opens the car door. Thief's accomplice gets in and starts the car. They drive away! https://mastodon.social/@it4sec/111167031354970229

2023-09-23 06:08:59

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@npub1nnh…v3dt
For iOS, mostly Mona. Sometimes Ivory. Mona has *all* the settings. Ivory is slick right out of the box, but fewer options.
https://mastodon.social/@MonaApp

2023-09-17 05:22:41

@npub19dj…n6qc
I thought you’d like this one. https://haunted.computer/@zutalorz/111072049212136633

2023-09-14 23:09:55

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@npub1k4q…3lsq @npub14ux…jx88 Once they clock out workers become *consumers*, or collectively, aggregate demand.

2023-09-12 01:19:47

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@npub1p9t…mltx I think you mean, “hell bent on NOT following even its own basic rules”

2023-08-27 03:53:16

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@npub1c5c…644a @npub19dj…n6qc
Excellent photo descriptions! Helpful even with my (not terrible) vision.

2023-08-16 20:46:58

Chief Gideon Cody's troubles are just beginning.
”All electronic devices seized by police will be returned to the Marion County Record, said Bernie Rhodes, a Kansas City-based attorney for the Record who also represents The Star.
"'We have stopped the hemorrhaging,' Rhodes told The Star. 'But it does nothing about taking care of the damage that has already occurred from the violation of the First Amendment in the first place.'"
"Marion County [Prosecutor] Joel Ensey said he concluded that 'insufficient evidence' existed to establish a 'legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.'"
https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article278300178.html

2023-08-06 01:51:26

Okay, that was kind of heavy. Here, have a photo of Emmy the Cat in her favorite felt ball for #caturday
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/839/692/222/520/507/original/9223706f5b1995fb.jpeg

2023-08-04 21:30:36

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If you have the time, skip my too-brief post and read this obituary of Sinéad O’Connor by Irish journalist Brigid Purcell.
#Sinead #SineadOConnor
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/sinead-oconnor-obituary

2023-08-04 01:45:01

@npub1svs…p66u
When I reply to someone on Mastodon. I like to put a carriage return after the users name so my reply starts on a new line. Mona does not honor this, even if I put and extra return in before I begin.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/828/342/509/270/014/original/4626d64c607b7196.png
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2023-08-04 01:33:00

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@npub1dq2…lrmu @npub19dj…n6qc I’m sorry, but if I see Sasquatch in the woods, I am giving him a sandwich.

2023-08-02 04:35:42

Ars Technica | Connected car data privacy under investigation by California regulator
"Modern vehicles are effectively connected computers on wheels. They're able to collect a wealth of information via built-in apps, sensors, and cameras, which can monitor people both inside and near the vehicle," said Ashkan Soltani, CPPA's executive director.
Well, *automobiles* are. Bicycles are not. Thwart Big Brother: Cycle! 🚲
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/connected-car-data-privacy-under-investigation-by-california-regulator/

2023-07-30 00:41:40

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@npub1jwd…zjt3 @npub1lsl…9c2x Mike Masnick has clearly jumped the shark. Now everyone is into him.

2023-07-27 01:36:05

I think it’s difficult for us in North America to appreciate how shocking, rebellious, and frankly prophetic Sinéad O’Connor was in an Irish context. I lived there briefly in 1985 and it was a bit of a shock.
I was 19 and not in school. I got a work permit and flew over to Dublin. I only spoke English at the time so it was kind of a toss up between London and Dublin. I didn’t think there’d be much of a difference it was all “Western Europe” as far as I was concerned — Denmark, France, Ireland, … all pretty similar right? Hahahaha.
Unlike today, Ireland in 1985 was a poor country. Deprivation had forced generations of people to emigrate to have a better life. There were 4 million people in the Republic, but in 1845 there had been 8 million. The only country in Europe whose population declined over that period. 1995 was the first time in 300 years Ireland did not have negative net migration.
And it was pious. There were no state schools. All education was in the hands of religious schools — overwhelmingly Catholic. Two years before, in 1983, the Republic had put a ban on abortion into their constitution. Condoms were illegal when I got there. In 1980 Bob Geldof had summed up his home town as “police and priests”.
It seemed a bit more patriarchal than the US in the Reagan years. But I didn’t know the half of it. It wasn’t until years later that I learned about the Magdalene Laundries where “troubled” girls were imprisoned in workhouses operated by orders of nuns, the Mother and Baby homes where women who were pregnant out of wedlock were kept out of sight to have their babies in secret, who were then taken from them and sold to American Catholic couples. And underneath it all the decades-long, quietly suppressed crime of the clergy sexually abusing boys and girls.
This stuff was not talked about in 1980s Ireland. But Sinéad did. She would not shut up. She would not stay in her place. She made original, passionate music. But if you think she caused an uproar in the US when she tore up a photo of the Pope on SNL … well, in Ireland in 1992 it was incendiary.
It was only later, in the late 1990 and 2000s that the scandals broke, and everyone could see that the crazy woman who would not shut up was right. She had been right all along.
The 2022 biographical film Nothing Compares is good. If you want to get the flavor of what she means to people in Ireland, go scroll through the expressions of grief pouring out on mastodon.ie
The woman was a giant.

2023-07-24 06:11:40

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@npub1xtr…2zj8 Are you saying Libertarian billionaires are not the arbiters of cool?

2023-07-11 10:49:14

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@npub1p9t…mltx Oh, Jake, sweetie. You are so alpha.

2023-06-02 02:56:46

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@npub1fef…s5yt I use Vivaldi a lot because the day job is very Google-apps dependent and I am reluctant to log-in to the G-Suite with the browsers I use for anything else. Just in case.

2023-06-02 02:46:14

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@npub1fef…s5yt I don’t have Chromium installed. I’m a Mac user and use Safari and Firefox. When I need a Chromium-based browser for testing web sites and such I use Iridium (a de-Googled Chromium) or Vivaldi (from the original Opera developers in Oslo).
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

2023-06-02 02:26:09

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@npub1fef…s5yt @npub1wng…qj5n I never understood how Brave was better than Firefox+uBlockOrigin. What’s the pitch? That you don’t have to install the UBO extension?

2023-05-25 01:33:54

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@npub1fef…s5yt
Joking, Ace.

2023-05-24 17:36:54

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@npub1fef…s5yt
Never heard of it.

2023-05-08 06:54:05

Interesting. Would anyone who is familiar with the inner workings of the Bluesky protocol like to offer a contrary opinion?
@npub1lsl…9c2x
Fiatjaf: Bluesky is a Scam
https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html

2023-05-05 04:17:47

@npub1svs…p66u
Viewing a user’s profile their posts are not displayed.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/110/313/673/028/919/740/original/4112f9a87784e286.png

2023-05-04 01:14:16

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@npub1fef…s5yt I ❤️ ctrl+k