kowalabearhugs
@kowalabearhugs.bsky.social
technologist, photographer, artist, occasional farmer, frequent vagabond
PGP fingerprint: d1b58813dd391d8ecf06c502ba4c92b981d2
PGP fingerprint: d1b58813dd391d8ecf06c502ba4c92b981d2
You have to have faith that their might be a surprise
November 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
You have to have faith that their might be a surprise
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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"We have the nodes, but not the cables, nor the satellites. Ethereum needs internet"
I can't stop thinking about this.
I can't stop thinking about this.
October 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"We have the nodes, but not the cables, nor the satellites. Ethereum needs internet"
I can't stop thinking about this.
I can't stop thinking about this.
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"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery...
July 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
"I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery...
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"Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know." -Aldo Leopold.
My grandfather told me what he heard from his father about how they darkened the sky. And how many of them he shot.
My grandfather told me what he heard from his father about how they darkened the sky. And how many of them he shot.
September 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know." -Aldo Leopold.
My grandfather told me what he heard from his father about how they darkened the sky. And how many of them he shot.
My grandfather told me what he heard from his father about how they darkened the sky. And how many of them he shot.
@2600.com Hope you had a hopeful Hope. I hadn't seen an old pay phone stall a while, so you can imagine my surprise whwn stumbling upon this one in Chama, New Mexico. #2600magazine
August 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
@2600.com Hope you had a hopeful Hope. I hadn't seen an old pay phone stall a while, so you can imagine my surprise whwn stumbling upon this one in Chama, New Mexico. #2600magazine
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OOP.
he said white people get your shit together
he said white people get your shit together
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
OOP.
he said white people get your shit together
he said white people get your shit together
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People still want to act as though white supremacy isn't at the heart of the Trump regime. Those people include my two Democratic senators & the editors & journalists at most major US media outlets.
The National Park Service plans to reinstall a statue of Confederate general Alfred Pike that was toppled during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Washington, DC. Pike, who was accused of “scalping and defiling the bodies” of Union troops, reportedly later became involved with the KKK.
Activists Denounce Plans to Reinstall Confederate Statue in DC
The monument of Alfred Pike was the only outdoor statue of a Confederate official in the nation's capital when it was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020.
hyperallergic.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
People still want to act as though white supremacy isn't at the heart of the Trump regime. Those people include my two Democratic senators & the editors & journalists at most major US media outlets.
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I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up:
san.com/cc/exclusive...
san.com/cc/exclusive...
Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest
Mobile network anomalies consistent with cell phone surveillance were detected at a July 4 protest at an ICE field office in Washington state.
san.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I've spent not-insignificant amount of time at protests in the US, looking for signs of IMSI catchers and never found anything, so when I saw this, my ears perked up:
san.com/cc/exclusive...
san.com/cc/exclusive...
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The likes of CNN and Foxnews paint the police as a noble force protecting us all.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
June 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The likes of CNN and Foxnews paint the police as a noble force protecting us all.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
David Graeber explains what the police are really about.
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In a new op-ed for Source's commentary section, immigration lawyer Allegra Love breaks down why ICE's detention of immigrants is wrong.
What ICE is doing in New Mexico and nationwide is wrong
Immigration lawyer Allegra Love's most recent commentary
buff.ly
June 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
In a new op-ed for Source's commentary section, immigration lawyer Allegra Love breaks down why ICE's detention of immigrants is wrong.
Help make #Monero more secure by supporting the MAGIC Monero Fund's campaign to develop comprehensive fuzzing harnesses for Monero's RPC handlers.
This project aims to make Monero nodes much more resilient now and after FCMP++s are adopted.
donate.magicgrants.org/monero/proje...
This project aims to make Monero nodes much more resilient now and after FCMP++s are adopted.
donate.magicgrants.org/monero/proje...
Fuzzing Harness Development for Monero’s RPC handlers<!-- --> - <!-- -->Monero Fundmoneromonero
donate.magicgrants.org
May 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Help make #Monero more secure by supporting the MAGIC Monero Fund's campaign to develop comprehensive fuzzing harnesses for Monero's RPC handlers.
This project aims to make Monero nodes much more resilient now and after FCMP++s are adopted.
donate.magicgrants.org/monero/proje...
This project aims to make Monero nodes much more resilient now and after FCMP++s are adopted.
donate.magicgrants.org/monero/proje...
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I have a load of really awesome electronics and phone manuals sitting in a museum in Santa Cruz that needs them gone basically in the next few days. Is someone around and willing to take a car trunks worth of these things up to the archive?
May 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I have a load of really awesome electronics and phone manuals sitting in a museum in Santa Cruz that needs them gone basically in the next few days. Is someone around and willing to take a car trunks worth of these things up to the archive?
Budget Walead Beshty FedEx boxes @ Jo-Ann Fabrics
May 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Budget Walead Beshty FedEx boxes @ Jo-Ann Fabrics
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May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
May Day protesters will rally nationwide against the 'war on working people'
May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on T...
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.
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"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
"ICE is a rogue federal agency operating with impunity-destabilizing families, terrorizing neighborhoods, and eroding the very principles of justice it claims to defend. What happened yesterday ... is not an accident-it is the deliberate outcome of a system sliding deeper into authoritarianism."
Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”
April 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Abolish ICE" and "defund the police" are both reasonable and correct on the merits but were absolutely neutered by centrists smearing them as radical activist overreach.
#Monero project is excited to announce the launch of the FCMP++ (Full-Chain Membership Proofs) Optimization Coding Competition! The best solution for each implementation will be awarded 250 XMR (currently ~53k USD) and 100 #XMR (~21k USD)
Details here: github.com/j-berman/fcm...
#rust #opensource
Details here: github.com/j-berman/fcm...
#rust #opensource
GitHub - j-berman/fcmp-plus-plus-optimization-competition
Contribute to j-berman/fcmp-plus-plus-optimization-competition development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
#Monero project is excited to announce the launch of the FCMP++ (Full-Chain Membership Proofs) Optimization Coding Competition! The best solution for each implementation will be awarded 250 XMR (currently ~53k USD) and 100 #XMR (~21k USD)
Details here: github.com/j-berman/fcm...
#rust #opensource
Details here: github.com/j-berman/fcm...
#rust #opensource
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This is good: "We Need More Empathy."
OPINION: "If you choose to spend your life tearing down and gaining satisfaction in the distress of others—no matter how you try to justify it—you have determined who you are, and I pity you," Nate Schumann writes.
Editor’s Note | Amid So Much Suffering, We Need More Empathy
Deputy Editor Nate Schumann reflects on lessons reinforced by a film teaching viewers that our differences should not define how we treat one another.
buff.ly
April 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is good: "We Need More Empathy."
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Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.
What would you call that?
What would you call that?
NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.
A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.
WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine
“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.
zeteo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why.
What would you call that?
What would you call that?
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The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.
March 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The safer you are in an environment of rising authoritarianism, the more obligation you have to make some noise on behalf of the people who are more vulnerable than you. Indeed, this is the only way you might avoid having the leopards eat your face.
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What do film editing, surveillance & hacking have to do with each other? Clever analysis and answer here: hackcur.io/snooping-edi...
Snooping, Editing, Hacking
In this pivotal scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, surveillance expert Harry Caul assembles, splices, and transforms a collection of tapes recorded earlier in the film. At this point ...
hackcur.io
February 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
What do film editing, surveillance & hacking have to do with each other? Clever analysis and answer here: hackcur.io/snooping-edi...
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The Monero Research Lab (MRL) recommends that all Monero node operators enable an IP address ban list to prevent spy nodes from compromising user privacy. More info and instructions on how to enable the ban list: github.com/monero-proje...
MRL recommendation: Ban spy node IP addresses from connecting to your node · Issue #1124 · monero-project/meta
The Monero Research Lab (MRL) has decided to recommend that all Monero node operators enable a ban list of suspected spy node IP addresses. The spy nodes can reduce the privacy of Monero users. cup...
github.com
December 20, 2024 at 7:28 PM
The Monero Research Lab (MRL) recommends that all Monero node operators enable an IP address ban list to prevent spy nodes from compromising user privacy. More info and instructions on how to enable the ban list: github.com/monero-proje...