Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

those of us Of A Certain Age have fond memories of typing their password into an irc chat instead of a login prompt

This article is worth your time.

You signed up for this when you tolerated cloud computing

Huh, ID checks not such a great idea

Of course you would download a car, dipshits! Information isn't economically scarce!

Countries around the world and the UN Human Rights Council all need to consider what it means that a single totalitarian government now controls Google and Apple’s app store content. apnews.com/article/appl...

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.

"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274

ah, the American version of Soviet-era transition programming. "we're experiencing technical difficulties with democracy, please enjoy this selection of recycled health scares while we figure things out"

IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THIS OUTCOME THAT ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE WITH ANY SENSE PREDICTED

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

I like that they fully committed and redid the whole underpass while they were at it

Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those…

not trolling I think unfiltered internet access should be a fundamental human right and countries that violate that should be charged

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Surely, that will work.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

there is no legitimate reason to monitor every single politically subversive or morally impure or sexually degenerate piece of information that everyone accesses age verification is a lie designed to monitor, restrict, and intimidate you into being a sexless grey cube with no dangerous thoughts

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events. The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

Keep posting this!

Paradox has announced Europa Universalis V, satisfying my bizarre psychological need for grand strategy games so hellishly overcomplicated that they give me anxiety

applying for jobs again

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar.

Zuck: the average american has 3 friends

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR

First RFK Jr says that people on the autism spectrum are useless eaters. And then he announces that the government is going to make a list of them, a “registry.”

i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal. the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.

"yes, hello. We may have free speeched our way into a fascist dictatorship where Christian nationalists & far-right grifters have eroded the rights of women, LGBTQ+, immigrants and politician dissidents , but we're really like to pitch you on our idea of free speech" lol, no thanks. You can keep it.

finally getting around to switching over from kitty to wezterm. nice when stuff works first try

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

This is your periodic reminder that I have the world’s longest ongoing list of accessibility tools for developers and I want more Thank you carry on. Let me know if links die. assisted.site/accessibility

"There once was a lawyer named Rex With diminutive organs of sex. When sued for exposure He pled, with composure: 'De minimis non curat lex.'"

Cancelled TV show you will never stop thinking about

Journalists should change their name on Signal to "Note to Self" and see what happens

Reposting for the #AtmosphereConf folks, in case you're looking for libraries in your favorite language to start building your PDS/AppView/Relay with :]

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey. Defiantly, ME

all floating-point numbers are created equal, but some are more equal than others

We've always been at war with Greenland.

Post a warning

I’ll never forgive a single person who voted for this evil.

Idus Martiae.

Extraordinary scenes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade right now. Around 500,000 people are on the streets in what may be the biggest protest in Serbian history. All demanding the resignation of President Vučić & his government. What began as a student protest is now a full democratic uprising. 🇷🇸