RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115623963048193907 I know this isn't feasible for everyone, but something to consider. I personally get most of my stuff from eBay, and they have a fantastic variety of stuff!

Fwiw, people are talking about this Bonfire thing that's crowdfunding for a better fediverse, but you might like to be aware of the `.claude` folder in their Github repo before deciding whether to give them your money.

Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

Remember kids: "Passive income" is a term used to describe wealth handed out to people by society, through our economic system, without doing any work. Many people receiving a "passive income" are intergenerationally wealthy, as opposed to the working class and long-term unemployed people who […]

Hi Kagi, I've been a paying customer for over a year and I'm happy with the product. But biggest thing stopping me from recommending Kagi to others is the Brave partnership. https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave I ask you to at least issue a statement denouncing […]

My mother was the breadwinner in the family, first to get a college degree in the family, and when she was pregnant with me her boss came into her office, told her that she'd never be the same accountant again, and fired her on the spot. That was in nineteen eighty two

Do a bad job for the Fascists.

If you're going off about how #nokings was peaceful, you're missing the point. It has no demands. It has accomplished nothing so far. People getting into the streets is good - but you're not yet even scaring the Trump admin, much less stopping them. And bragging about being peaceful is […]

More like America rarely was a democracy to begin with. Slavery. Indigene removal and genocide. Jim Crow. Denial of women’s suffrage. Child labor. White nativism. Red Scare x2. Anti-labor governance. When exactly was there democracy in anything other than name?

“Seventeen months of high-definition horror, posted in real-time by Palestinians themselves, fundamentally altered the credibility calculation in the Western mind. People started believing Palestinians. Worse, from #Israel’s perspective, they started going back through the archive, re-evaluating […]

Neofeud 2 is a #cyberpunk game where a social worker for homeless robots, an ex-con & an ex-trillionaire princess fight world-ending post-human CEO / Kings Get Neofeud 1 70% off now & help me finish #2 (pictured)! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It's International Smug Self-Hosters Day! Best wishes to all who celebrate.

This is the most punk thing I've ever heard of. This guy got his physics phd then proceeded to use it to create open source plans for everything you need to start a civilization. Definitely going in my digital apocalypse kit (wait, you don't have one?!), and this guy is now one of my heroes […]

What the fascists really hate about the No Kings rallies is that you will meet other people who love democracy too and realize that you are not alone and be less afraid of them. Authoritarians thrive on fear and keeping people feeling scared and alone. Let’s all have a fun and peaceful time today.

#nokings #nyc Marching with #uft and the labor union contingent.

Saluting everyone who's attending a #nokings protest today. You are America.

1. In a groundbreaking lawsuit, fencer Dinah Yukich has become the first to our knowledge to sue an entity for capitulating to Trump's anti-trans executive orders in violation of state nondiscrimination law. This kind of lawsuit could have huge ripple effects. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“What can we even do?” We can’t do anything!” (16 & 20yr) Mom protester: “You’re showing up. You know what you’re doing? You’re amplifying it. You’re amplifying the message. And even if everything goes down, you’ll be on the right side of history!” #NoKings #Invoke25 #ResistFascism

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says. This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops. Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills. Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Cybersecurity Reddit is devolving between mid career IT with certs saying only degrees are getting hired and grads saying only certs and experience are getting hired - and I’m sorry but this is late stage capitalist hell, comrades. Only people with degrees plus experience and certs are getting hired

This appears to need clarification: it's perfectly legit to be a Framework customer disappointed with Nirav's relentless stanning for DHH, as I am myself. It's somewhat less so to go "I will never buy Framework because they're profoundly incompatible with my high standard of personal ethics […]

If you have any interest in the outcome of the #russian #invasion of #ukraine, and you have not yet read @[email protected]'s analysis of its likely future, then you should. You probably shouldn't try to set your watch by the timing, but this analysis is solid and accurate. RE […]

Fascinating: A new, comprehensive study finds that a common methodological mistake has for years led researchers to overestimate the contribution of genetics to intelligence. An adopted-away study reveals a far greater impact of environment - specifically, education - on IQ […]

... or have kids with disabilities

A WGN video producer was handcuffed and taken into custody by federal agents on Friday morning while documenting the arrest of a Latino man, and a legal analyst warned the move defied a court order. https://www.rawstory.com/chicago-ice-arrests/

Ha, I use a Mac Studio at work and had a funny incident with an 82 MB CSV file. Apple's Numbers pegged all of the CPU cores for a few minutes before opening the file, and changing column widths or running text searches would cause Numbers to hang for a few seconds. So I tried LibreOffice Calc […]

Most Americans supported the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, because they had been systematically misinformed about the reasons for it. Saddam had no links to al-Qaeda, played no role in the 2001 terrorist attacks, and had no "weapons of mass destruction". US weapons inspector Scott Ritter […]

It's pretty clear from the #bluesky CEO's shitposting that she really would rather not have all those uppity trans folks and their friends on the platform. Instead she'd prefer to proudly talk to investors about how even J.D. Vance has an account. It's the digital town square! Everyone is […]

About those Tesla Q3 numbers... The recovery isn't what it's cracked up to be, and there's likely disaster coming in Q4. Hope #ElonMusk enjoys it while it lasts. And we hope to see you out there at a #teslatakedown action this weekend to keep the heat on!

Texas Universities are now banning many professors from even acknowledging that transgender people even exist. A massive censorship battle is snowballing its way through Texas higher ed. S. Baum writes about it in their latest piece for Erin In The Morning. Subscribe to support our work.

Reading on many anti-Trump takes and No Kings banners, it dawns on me that most of you want the problem that is Trump for your daily life fixed, but you don't really care about the problem that America is for the rest of the world: coups, invasions, interventions, electoral meddling, drone […]

Just like I did back in 1998, I signed up for a print subscription to _The Onion_. I just got this email, related to that. It is simply hysterical. They have totally captured the zeitgeist of these stupid corporate letters. The image is a screencap of the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

No live coverage on The Guardian of the Global Sumud Flotilla. They had no problem giving us a live coverage of the Kirk funeral. They don't even need to spend resources to cover the GSF. They can just report what they see on the live feed. They spent resources to go to Kirk's funeral.

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

If you want to call your senator or representative, you can do so here. Tell them that anti-LGBTQ+ provisions are a red line for the final negotiated budget bill and for any compromises around it. www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

UK's Labour Party abandoned transgender people. The gambit to pursue rightwing voters by abandoning a targeted minority failed, and now they're facing the prospect of a historic loss. US Dems could learn a lot from their failure. Great piece from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I think a few outrageous takes on digital sovereignty by Big Tech are covered by this quote: #digitalsovereignty #eupol #depol

Today's anti genocide protest in Tel Aviv. Disrupted by right wingers but no violence. Today's chants included: - Katz, Katz, minister of Defense, how many children have you killed today - From the river to the sea, freedom and equality for everybody - Peace, equality, social justice

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms. Trump will now pull millions in federal funds. "Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Criticism about AI in schools and colleges is disproportionately focused on how it allows students to get away with something (by using OpenAI to write their essays). But shouldn't we be talking more about its detrimental effects on teaching and learning than on how it impedes our ability to […]

Reuters can do its journalistic duty and simply cite international experts from the UN to Amnesty to B’TSelem to the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association. Reuters makes an editorial decisions to not do it in every Israel/Palestine-related article they publish. This is not journalism.

Microsoft has been forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe. Most European Windows 10 users will no longer be required to turn on Windows Backup to enroll into Microsoft's Extended Security Updates (ESU). Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785544/...