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@TheMid70s
@themid70s.bsky.social
📢Critic. 🥃Spirits industry voyeur. 🔌Cordcutter.🦎HerpFanGirl. 🛟Budding Consumer Advocate.

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Just published on FOSS Force: After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In fossforce.com/2025/12/afte...
After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In - FOSS Force
The court ruled, SFC fired back, and Linus Torvalds couldn’t resist weighing in. Here’s what actually happened.
fossforce.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions.
FTC: Instacart to refund $60M over deceptive subscription tactics
Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.

An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”

These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Update time! #LibreOffice 25.8.2 is now available, with bugfixes and improvements to document compatibility: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10...
October 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Larry Cafiero did a really nice review of this distro a couple of months ago here: buff.ly/5WbclAw Distribution Release: KaOS 2025.09 (buff.ly/NHZCAmM News) buff.ly/8mfYdg9
Scratch-Built KaOS and Its Latest KDE-Driven Evolution - FOSS Force
KaOS doesn’t follow the crowd; it sets its own course with a bold KDE twist. This just might be the Linux distro you've been waiting for.
buff.ly
September 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Racist voices are becoming louder and moving into the mainstream. How can I help my client feel safe? | Ahona Guha
Racist voices are becoming louder and moving into the mainstream. How can I help my client feel safe? | Ahona Guha
Within the context of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, Aisha found that she was hyper-vigilant and anxious about the possibility of another assault
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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BREAKING: Deadly shooting in North Carolina was “highly premeditated” and the location was “targeted,” police say.
Police: Deadly shooting in North Carolina was 'highly premeditated' and location was 'targeted'
A North Carolina man is accused of opening fire from a boat into a crowd at a waterfront bar, killing three and injuring five others.
bit.ly
September 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Brian Finn is a tattoo artist in Toledo, Ohio who has been offering free and discounted tattoos for people covering trauma scars for more than 10 years.
How a Toledo tattoo artist helps turn scars into art
Brian Finn is a tattoo artist in Toledo, Ohio who has been offering free and discounted tattoos for people covering trauma scars for more than 10 years.
n.pr
September 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.
Photographer Sally Mann warns of 'new era of culture wars' after art seizure
As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.
n.pr
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Stress is the natural reaction your body has when changes or challenges occur. It can result in many different physical, emotional and behavioral responses. Everyone experiences stress from time to time. You can’t avoid it. But stress management techniques can help you deal with it.
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Look around or pull up that spreadsheet of everything you own you definitely made for insurance purposes because it is Recall Thursday!
September 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Ghost of Yōtei is exactly the kind of game PlayStation needs
Ghost of Yōtei is exactly the kind of game PlayStation needs
A refinement of its predecessor.
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"Pushing people into insecure, physical, inflexible work when they are already challenged by disability or mental health problems is futile. These jobs don’t work and they don’t last"

Spot on from @claremcneil.bsky.social - important work by @timewise.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Sick who go back to work end up in low-paid, physically tough jobs
Only a tiny fraction of economically inactive find a job each year, and it is often an unsuitable role where they can only last a few months, research shows
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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"VMSCAPE can lead to leaking information from a user-space hypervisor via speculative side channels": Intel Posts New Linux Patches To Reduce Overhead Of VMSCAPE Mitigation - Phoronix
Intel Posts New Linux Patches To Reduce Overhead Of VMSCAPE Mitigation
Earlier this month the VMSCAPE CPU security vulnerability was made public and affecting both AMD and Intel processors
buff.ly
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The annual beauty pageant for transgender women closed with the winner, Midori Monet, being ignored by fellow contestants and accusations of mistreatment from the year's runner-up.
A snubbed winner, verbal sparring: The sour ending to this year's Miss International Queen
The annual beauty pageant for transgender women closed with the winner, Midori Monet, being ignored by fellow contestants and accusations of mistreatment from the year's runner-up.
bit.ly
September 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Trump does not want Congress to open up the Epstein files.

And now Republicans who once pushed hard to release them are suddenly silent

Let’s not allow them to distract us from the Epstein files, or from defending the children who were raped by men who don’t want to be exposed

📹: @nowthisimpact
September 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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In-person and virtual community initiatives, adjusting the Android roadmap, and the journey to true Conversation View (and why it's hard!). All this and more, including a gassy Boston Terrier as a bonus. Read/watch/listen at the blog:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/stat...
State of the Thunder 12: Community, Android, and Mozilla Connect - The Thunderbird Blog
We’re back with our twelfth episode of the State of the Thunder! In this episode, we’re talking about community initiatives, filling you in on Android development, and finishing our updates on popular...
blog.thunderbird.net
September 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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CBS and Fox are set to broadcast a combined 13 games on Sunday for NFL Week 3. Here's which ones will air in each region.
NFL Week 3 coverage maps: Which games are Fox, CBS broadcasting?
CBS and Fox are set to broadcast a combined 13 games on Sunday for NFL Week 3. Here's which ones will air in each region.
bit.ly
September 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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“While it’s good to see that @proton.me is reconsidering account suspensions, journalists are among the users who need these and similar tools most,” @mshelton.bsky.social, Freedom of the Press Foundation's deputy director of digital security, told @theintercept.com.
Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.
theintercept.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM