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Instead of cooking grannie stew, I cook up posts on hacking and our broken systems– both in tech and society.
Let's figure out how to fix them, starting with the fascists in seats of power.
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Instead of cooking grannie stew, I cook up posts on hacking and our broken systems– both in tech and society.
Let's figure out how to fix them, starting with the fascists in seats of power.
💻👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾💻
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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
July 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
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CLARIFICATION :
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.
They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY
So spread this around
They can be texted. They can be called.
June 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"
June 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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I'd like to think it'd be my general handiness, I can fix most things I've tried to fix. Or my ability to set up telecommunications... But tbh it'd probably be my knowledge of decent beer brewing that would save my ass in an apocalypse 😅
I can tell when most people are lying.
Repost with your best apocalypse skill.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqcc...
Repost with your best apocalypse skill.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqcc...
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'd like to think it'd be my general handiness, I can fix most things I've tried to fix. Or my ability to set up telecommunications... But tbh it'd probably be my knowledge of decent beer brewing that would save my ass in an apocalypse 😅
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The best way that I heard it put was that as a leftist, you are voting for your opponent for the next four years.
Who do you want to fight and how would you see it going?
That should have made the choice pretty obvious.
Who do you want to fight and how would you see it going?
That should have made the choice pretty obvious.
February 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The best way that I heard it put was that as a leftist, you are voting for your opponent for the next four years.
Who do you want to fight and how would you see it going?
That should have made the choice pretty obvious.
Who do you want to fight and how would you see it going?
That should have made the choice pretty obvious.
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The COMPLETE 4-page Guide to Surviving an Authoritarian Regime, in graphic form
- With love, your Eastern European friends✌️ #LearnFromEurope
[Date of original Twitter publication: Jan 2017.
Updated version: verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
I'm sorry to my US friends that it's still relevant...]
- With love, your Eastern European friends✌️ #LearnFromEurope
[Date of original Twitter publication: Jan 2017.
Updated version: verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
I'm sorry to my US friends that it's still relevant...]
November 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
The COMPLETE 4-page Guide to Surviving an Authoritarian Regime, in graphic form
- With love, your Eastern European friends✌️ #LearnFromEurope
[Date of original Twitter publication: Jan 2017.
Updated version: verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
I'm sorry to my US friends that it's still relevant...]
- With love, your Eastern European friends✌️ #LearnFromEurope
[Date of original Twitter publication: Jan 2017.
Updated version: verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...
I'm sorry to my US friends that it's still relevant...]
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Q: “What are you striking for, can you explain more?”
A: Absolutely! Here’s the same list you’ll find on our website under “About Us” > “What Are Our Demands”.
#strike #boycott #socialreform #workersparty #equality #universalhealthcare #socialism #ceasefire #climatechange #gunreform #taxtherich
A: Absolutely! Here’s the same list you’ll find on our website under “About Us” > “What Are Our Demands”.
#strike #boycott #socialreform #workersparty #equality #universalhealthcare #socialism #ceasefire #climatechange #gunreform #taxtherich
January 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Q: “What are you striking for, can you explain more?”
A: Absolutely! Here’s the same list you’ll find on our website under “About Us” > “What Are Our Demands”.
#strike #boycott #socialreform #workersparty #equality #universalhealthcare #socialism #ceasefire #climatechange #gunreform #taxtherich
A: Absolutely! Here’s the same list you’ll find on our website under “About Us” > “What Are Our Demands”.
#strike #boycott #socialreform #workersparty #equality #universalhealthcare #socialism #ceasefire #climatechange #gunreform #taxtherich
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Pass it on
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Pass it on
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In 1944 the U.S. government wrote a sabotage guide for people in fascist occupied countries. It includes a section on how managers and office workers can slow down operations.
It has been declassified and you can read and download it here:
www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
It has been declassified and you can read and download it here:
www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
January 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In 1944 the U.S. government wrote a sabotage guide for people in fascist occupied countries. It includes a section on how managers and office workers can slow down operations.
It has been declassified and you can read and download it here:
www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
It has been declassified and you can read and download it here:
www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
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1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
January 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
1. The executive orders did *not* freeze federal funding.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
2. The Monday OMB memo *did* freeze federal funding.
3. OMB rescinded Monday’s memo, thereby rescinding the funding freeze.
4. The EOs (which did not freeze federal funding) are still in effect—and, for these purposes, irrelevant.
Sigh.
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Well, @404media.co is on fire with this headline (worthy of El Reg @theregister.com over here)
And this excerpt is just glorious
And this excerpt is just glorious
January 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Well, @404media.co is on fire with this headline (worthy of El Reg @theregister.com over here)
And this excerpt is just glorious
And this excerpt is just glorious
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Wish I had proof, but I did think last year that this might happen.
Turns out, "garbage in, garbage out" is still the law of the jungle. Throwing billions of dollars in infrastructure at the system, exploiting slave labor, and boiling an ocean to polish said garbage does nothing to change it
Turns out, "garbage in, garbage out" is still the law of the jungle. Throwing billions of dollars in infrastructure at the system, exploiting slave labor, and boiling an ocean to polish said garbage does nothing to change it
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
Can someone explain it to me like I'm stupid?
January 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Wish I had proof, but I did think last year that this might happen.
Turns out, "garbage in, garbage out" is still the law of the jungle. Throwing billions of dollars in infrastructure at the system, exploiting slave labor, and boiling an ocean to polish said garbage does nothing to change it
Turns out, "garbage in, garbage out" is still the law of the jungle. Throwing billions of dollars in infrastructure at the system, exploiting slave labor, and boiling an ocean to polish said garbage does nothing to change it
For everybody that's heaping praise on Bluesky right now, this sort of thing is worth keeping in mind...
January 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For everybody that's heaping praise on Bluesky right now, this sort of thing is worth keeping in mind...