"The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is not jazz programming going out on shortwave radio across Eurasia, but the social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe.” http://bit.ly/496z77C

Judge orders agents in #chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes Federal #immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear #bodycameras, a judge ordered Thursday after seeing #teargas & other aggressive steps used against #protesters. #trump #law #constitution […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stefthepef/115384875191768984 I'm a terminally online hermit, and even I would rather spend time with a stranger than a bot. Even now.

‼️The Seventh Circuithas upheld District Court temporary restraining order against Trump deploying federalized National Guard in Chicago. #lawfedi

https://www.tumblr.com/sassinake/797590924594151424/love-is-more-than-a-candle-chapter-1 #reylo #fanfiction #starwars #nsfw

I went to a crafters against #fascism event tonight, and I realized somet... https://youtu.be/0hzJhLPwBco You're not alone. You have friends everywhere. There are more of you than of them. #50501 #indivisible #nokings #resist #rebels

Them: “We should make open source sustainable” Me: “Can I get paid for my work?” Them: “Not like that!”

The Invisible Hand has been ladling asbestos into the Baby Powder

Oyster-inspired ‘bone glue’ could replace metal in fracture surgery. Chinese scientists have created a medical adhesive called Bone-02 that can bond shattered bones in just three minutes, even in blood-soaked surgical sites. Inspired by the way oysters cling to rocks underwater, the glue forms a […]

Can’t stop posting these. #portlandfrog #nokings

both Twitter and bluesky are down, is that dem senator finally getting sworn it, or has the US govt been dismantled to avoid the Epstein Files reveal?

Bluesky on the blitz. https://downdetector.ca/status/bluesky/

The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing! Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and a lot of other improvements. For server moderators, there is also a way to block registrations based on keywords appearing in usernames. Please test […]

In 2022, Ireland did something bold. It trusted its artists. 2000 creators received €325 a week, no strings attached. The result was more art, less anxiety, stronger communities, and even economic gains. Now the program is permanent. Ireland becomes the first country to prove that supporting […]

Philip K Dick's handbook of narrative warfare youtu.be/8pSP0iXlruI DAMO discusses the book (the tv series was excellent nonetheless). The use of ai images is to prove a point.

Today the Support of Windows 10 is over 💡As an user, you should have the right to choose your operating system 🖥️ If you buy a computer with a pre-installed Windows license that you don’t want to use, you can request a refund💸. “You should not have to pay for software you do not want […]

Academic researchers discover that about half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping […]

Shape by Aviendha69 - Reylo Modern-AU archiveofourown.org/works/62720017 One of my rare non-canonverse fics. Artist/muse dynamic, with an extra challenge. Wrote this for #RFFA24 #ReyloSSS

We just released Mastodon 4.4.6, 4.3.14, and 4.2.27. These versions contain security fixes, as well as a few other bugfixes mostly related to handling of quote posts. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page […]

In other news, we sometimes forget that Elon Musk did not buy Twitter on his own, but with money from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was already Twitter’s biggest shareholder before Musk bought it and reportedly planted engineer-spies inside the company to unmask dissidents. After the acquisition […]

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Over on the Blue site, this: https://bsky.app/profile/rude1.blacksky.team/post/3m2n62lo6v22p So I wonder at interoperability between BS and Mastodon, or just the similarities?

new ayn rand just dropped #argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes

Makes my soul feel good to see this kind of protest activity pissing off the bad guys. Although I'm half expecting some attempt to outlaw these frog costumes in the near future. #politics #protests

Excellent interview on Enshittification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc With @pluralistic and @adamconover

Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war. -Nora Reed #portland #frogs #antifa #antifascistfrog #frogbrigade

Excellent post by @arya on the @frameworkcomputer mess. https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

AMPHIBIANS AGAINST FASCISM If you know who made this, post in replies, I tried but failed to find an original. #protest #sign #frog #portlandfrog #art

Wow this sucks so bad. a person posted on /r/datahoarder that they have created an archive of the Epstein files with added metadata like mentioned people and etc. But everything is LLM-generated.... Including the "full text" of the documents. Rather than […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

The Nobel Committee has awarded this year's peace prize to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” […]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights and for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite […]

Federal District Court Judge Sarah Ellis has just issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting all DHS federal agents in Chicago from a long list of paramilitary behaviors toward protesters and members of the press […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115346527639062545 Christo-Fascists worship the Cross that damn heretic was executed on, not the man's Word.

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry." -- Nick Clegg #AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech

Rey & Kylo | Free https://youtu.be/QSD2cUUw33E timeline cleanse?

If the Nobel PEACE prize is awarded to the person who is most terrifying, then that's the end of that prize.

our sexy dork. In all his glorious animal magnetism. Rrrawwrr.

Our sexy dork https://bsky.app/profile/adamdrivercentral.bsky.social/post/3m2rk6t3ofs2w #adamdriver

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite. Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform. Major conservatives joined in. Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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I love them both. 🥰❤️

Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day! How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game! Visit https://alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important. #alttext #imagedescriptions #accessibility #worldsightday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@whitequark/115345073708715320 I don't understand what half of this means, but people are taking it seriously.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115345346648445621 This is so wild and I actually wrote this concept in a sci-fi short story - as an aberrant tech - in '99. The idea came from the saying: 'the sun shines for everyone, freely', and I felt that Rich assholes would subvert that. I […]

WTF Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class. Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement. https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

Why Trump is at war with #venezuela | About That https://youtu.be/IIpgOGWc7Ug Canada still being polite.

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