RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/115742530333573065 The European Commission will introduce it's next attempt at chat control, Going Dark, next year. Here we go again...

RE: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/115740433155019777 It's just over 13 years since John Scalzi published his essay "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is"¹, which really helped bring home to me what @welshpixie is saying hear, and if you haven't read it yet, I […]

RE: https://flipboard.com/@heiseonline/heise-online-in-english-ifetu9qsz/-/a-f6D0kj3DRbmEzH9UxPvbRg%3Aa%3A2831390041-%2F0 If you bought a Roomba because you didn't want videos of your home to be sent to China, well, about that...

Yes, yes. I’m sure the applications will only be #humanitarian. I’m positive the funding for the #research was provided by humanitarian sources — not military contractors. Yes, I’m certain won’t be used for nefarious reasons. Just “search and rescue.” […]

Fuck you, Labour, you cunts. You are dead to me. BBC News - Trans women will not be allowed to attend main Labour Women's Conference events. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c773vm4n3n0o

“…Israeli authorities are continuing their ruthless policies, restricting access to vital humanitarian aid and essential services, and deliberately imposing conditions calculated to physically destroy Palestinians in Gaza,” said Agnès Callamard.” […]

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115622285573521088 These zines are neat and handy. Are there some you need?

They. Never. Do. Tax. Them. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/22/rich-fleeing-manhattan-false-narrative-price-demand-up/87385511007/

Because he was already fascist-inclined, his brain got totally pickled by Twitter and ket, and he assumed this would show all the Dem-leaning accounts were foreign ops bsky.app/profile/poli...

The Trump regime wants to start making a list of Jews (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/eeoc-university-pennsylvania-antisemitism-jewish.html). Now where have I heard that one before?

@SteveBellovin the peope who think swastikas aren’t hate symbols want a list of Jews, in order to protect Jews. Naturally.

@marick I'm slowly working my way through "Fascism: The Story of an Idea", and maybe it's true that history doesn't repeat itself, but boy oh boy there's a whole lot of rhyming going on.

lol meta chief AI scientist is leaving and is saying LLMs are a dead end

From Substack: ‘BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein survivors just released this incredibly touching Public Service Announcement. Make it go viral! Trump is so disgusting for covering us up.’ https://substack.com/@krassenstein/note/c-178016235

AI is not the Dot com bubble It's much worse The internet did become a massively useful technology "AI" is almost useless. The massive resources out into it are just being burned. Literally.

The last time I posted this I had some Zionists out themselves and get angry, so to be crystal clear I will repost it. I will always be a voice for the oppressed and for those less privileged than myself. Even if it could costs me infosec clout.

LESS. THAN. A. WEEK. Took them less than a week to take one of the most visible public repudiations of the GOP in my lifetime and turn it into hog slop. I’m so mad my temperature is higher than my ACA premiums.

The politics of the shutdown: *GOP had a strong opening position *Undercut themselves with the RIFs and unnecessary cuts to blue states/SNAP *Polls showed GOP getting most of the blame, no reason to assume that would change *Dem centrists then folded on their key issue of ACA subsidies

Folks, it doesn’t matter that Schumer voted “no”. He got the Dem caucus on board with caving. THEN the caucus figured out who should vote yes to provide cover for D Sens up for reelection in 2026, who might have been in serious danger of being primaried. As for the retiring D Senators, doing […]

Scientists have discovered that it is possible to just do something, without making a podcast about it

Just got scolded for failing to include a politics CW. Fuck that shit. Don't like my posts? Don't follow me.

@timbray @aphyr Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are dragged from their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women and children separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. -- Anne Frank, January 13, 1943

My former workplace is laying folks off again. Let me know if you need a good distributed database person. #getfedihired

The statement "philosophers do not agree" is true in all circumstances and at all times.

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

[can pol] Hey cool! Apparently that committee that asked for lots of privacy invading info on Canadian research grants actually rescinded their request! Once again, lots of yelling worked! (Apologies for the linkedin link, gross, this is what was shared with me) […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

Every time I mention communism online

"It's like your Roomba decided to form a union" I do actually make myself laugh

The most important lesson for Democrats from Mamdani's victory is this: abandon the decades-old practice of triangulating to win the center. Instead, grow the base with a positive, joyful vision for what government can do when it gives up on being shackled to a Republican base.

getting ready to go out and vote for #zohranmamdani. can’t remember when was the last time i was this excited to vote. today #newyorkcity is making history. #gotv #nyc #newyork #antifa

if there's one thing to take away from the nyc election it is that you should never commit to an idea unless it is sufficiently tested to be popular or...even if it does seem popular...you should probably wait...just to see. because it's important to have the data bc you don't wanna go out on a limb

Speaking from personal experience, it hurts like hell when a publisher kills a great magazine you poured your heart into. But BYTE's fate wasn't political, as Teen Vogue's almost surely was. Sorry folks, I really do feel your pain. You will be missed […]

Capitalism ominously silent as carbon-based work units elect humanoid mayor Read here medium.com/science-fict...

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, 2020. All the pixels, available with or without a government shutdown, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/50402933763 #photography

I especially liked this bit: The President of the United States of America doesn’t know the difference between “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a place where mentally ill people are treated”, and “asylum”, as in (sometimes) “a refuge from persecution and/or violence”. And thus he believes that […]

The existence of click-through license agreements, especially as used to gate access to software, should have been a giant tell for the corrosive approach to consent taken by tech companies.

This is why we can't have nice things. I wave the white flag in the battle with the bots. I thought the IP blocking would do it, but it it was just a blip, we're back to a request for a zip file every 3 seconds. All I have left is putting the entire code repository behind a password, which I […]

I'm running some tests on my old and trusted Raspberry Pi A+. I've installed Raspbian - latest release, lite version. At the prompt, it's using 92 MB of RAM, mainly due to systemd and NetworkManager. As soon as you use it (even just for apt), it starts swapping and becomes almost unusable. It […]

“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability and to demand that technology serve the many, not just the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency, and justice must come before speed, efficiency, and scale.” […]

It's only Fascism if it comes from the Fascist region of Fascistan. Anything else is just...

Good news! #chatcontrol has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way […]

I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the "right wing" is just the sum collective of Dark Triad personality disorders in our society. Are you a borderline narcisist sociopath with high tendency to sadism? MAGA has a home for you.

2/2 Succumbing to temptation, I shamelessly steal from Hackwhackers: https://hackwhackers.blogspot.com/2025/10/todays-cartoons_02100003032.html

People with some cancers live longer after a #covid #vaccine #mrna #vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an #immune therapy for #skin and #lungcancer ― in an unexpected way. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03432-7 #healthcare #medicine #publichealth

What To Know About Data Centers - The Onion Q: What do data centers need to run? A: Water, electricity, air conditioning, and other resources typically wasted on schools and hospitals. https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-data-centers/