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I find it's important to explain to ordinary Americans what fascism is and why it's bad and why their friendly neighborhood Democratic incumbent of a thousand years is all over it because most of them only get a whitewashed "red versus blue" version of the story.

I don't know that it does much good, especially with the VBNMW crowd, who are often willfully ignorant. But I feel like capitalizing on popular discontent with a broken system is a start.

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One of the things that's striking to me about social democrats running for office is that the key to their success is actually campaigning. As in, knocking on doors and going to public gatherings and talking to people.

The Democratic Party has become increasingly hostile to basic campaigning. Its posture is that people are morally obligated to vote for the Democrats.

It's like somehow the lesson they drew from Hillary Clinton's campaigns is that voters should be punished for failing to honor seniority.

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Lorraine Lee

Looking at the absolute ferocity of the moderate Democrats' opposition to the DSA I think they are firmly committed to the antisocialist consensus that has been a firm bipartisan commitment since the time of Truman (arguably since Wilson). They literally think of socialism as an ENEMY ideology, and one equally as extreme, and as hostile to human rights, as fascism. Their commitment to Israel, I think, is largely part of socialism being an absolute non-starter, as Israel was aligned with the west during the Cold War, and perhaps more importantly, the PLO was at least partially funded by Moscow. Joe Biden, in particular, struck me as someone whose brain was literally in the 20th century.
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I'm generally in favor of seniority systems (I consider it part and parcel of being pro-union) but the Democratic Party (and also the Republican Party, interestingly enough) has gone way beyond seniority into gerontocracy. It reminds me of the quick succession of several elderly Soviet premiers between the death of Brezhnev and the final collapse of the Soviet Union. There are other examples in history if one looks. Gerontocracy seems to be a symptom of a moribund political order.
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I once reinstalled a computer and asked a friend to come over with PkZip because I needed to unzip something, and he brought a floppy with it on... zipped.

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Do not show the fascist techbros any part of your anatomy no matter how hard they ask.

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2026-07-01 19:44:51

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Google's new reCAPTCHA wants you to turn on your camera and show it your hand, so it can identify you more definitively.

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'This is a company whose business runs on gathering and monetizing personal data, now asking to switch on your camera and read your hand.'


Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

The same company that monetizes everything you do online would like to switch on your camera.
Ken Macon (Reclaim The Net: Free Speech, Privacy, Digital Rights)

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It's time for me to start moving away from smarthome functionality. I just opened a manufacturer provided app to turn on my ceiling fan and I had to watch an ad first. Enduring an ad to turn on a ceiling fan is not worth the hassle. I need to exercise to flip a switch. #enshittification
#enshittification

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New political compass just dropped!

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(Screenshot shows my result. Surprising no-one, I'm 92% woke to 8% chud.)

2020s Political Compass Test

In this era of post-materialism, where the traditional left-right divide has given way to more vibes-based politics, this test hopes to refresh the outdated policy-oriented political compass tests …
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Starting with this question:
The primary cause of crime is poverty and deprivation.

The quiz kinda goes off the rails.

Crime here is left undefined, and I know they mean property crime and crimes regularly prosecuted by the local DA, but in reality, most crime is committed by rich people who buy politicians to avoid prosecution. (See graph showing that wage theft far exceeds burglaries.).

There really should be an option that is, "I disagree with the premise of the question."

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:boost_ok: looking for jobs

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#getfedihired #FediHire
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I sure would pay 2-3x the price of a Roku for a FOSS usb device that let me stream Jellyfin, Plex, etc. on my TVs.

I guess I could just go with the tiniest possible CachyOS computer. It's working great on a mini PC on my main home theater/gaming TV.

Now that I say this, with a little elbow grease and moving things around, I could have an extra Pi4. Looks like it will be project time soon.

All this is to say, fuck you FOX.

#foss #selfhosted

#foss #selfhosted
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Ça va devenir comme la Floride 😨

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2026-06-11 21:53:54

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Les bibliothèques municipales de Russie devront retirer jusqu’à 70 % de leurs livres pour respecter les lois sur les « agents étrangers » et les « organisations indésirables ».
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Russie : avec les nouvelles lois restrictives, les bibliothèques se vident

Des bibliothèques municipales devront retirer jusqu’à 70 % de leurs livres pour respecter les lois sur les « agents étrangers » et les « organisations indésirables ». #EuropeNews
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FFS.

I've been a Roku user (and generally a pretty happy one) for over a decade. Today each TV in the house has a Roku device attached to it; they're the only "smart" devices we own.

I've also been watching the gradual enshittification of the Roku experience in recent years. More ads, more dark patterns, more decisions that run contrary to the needs of the user. I can only expect Roku being acquired by Fox to accelerate this sad trend.

Now it's just a matter of whether I proactively replace my Roku devices or gradually replace them as they die.

FFS.

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Fox buying Roku for $22 billion. wsj.com/business/deals/fox-rok…

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Quick thoughts on the proposed UK social media ban

- Enforcement will be a nightmare, teens are already more tech savvy than most parents

- Taking an existing right away from teens for 'debatable' reasons will never end well

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- It's ultimately based on the paranoia of concerned parents, rather than evidence. The victims will be the less privileged kids, and those who don't have concerned parents, for whom SM acts as a lifeline, but are absent from the whole discussion

- techdirt.com/2026/02/17/austra…

As ever, it's a policy where the *possible* but unsubstantiated risk to the privileged are heavily prioritised over the *actual* harms that would be done to the underprivileged. Modern politics in a nutshell, basically.
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Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

We’ve been covering Australia’s monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an …
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Would honestly be more supportive of this if government combined it with a bunch of support which has been proven to improve children's MH and wellbeing, but has been systematically removed over the last few decades.

A few examples - Surestart, youth clubs, free or subsidised sports centres, quality and easily accessible counselling, adequate SEN support in schools, libraries within walking distance, cheap and frequent public transport, safer roads and neighbourhoods... As a school counsellor, it is very difficult for me to recommend to kids they get off social media until I know they have something better and safer to do instead.

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I believe the lib/Dem/progressive/ DSA/ leftist infighting results from 2 things. Russia is pitting the left and right against the center, while Israel is pitting the right and center against the left. The center and left are both targets in two-against-one scenarios, while the right is not.

#uspol

#uspol

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A student who puts their name in the file name of a PDF they send me instead of just calling it thesis.pdf is clearly a genius and I almost don't need to read the thesis. 😛

#AcademicChatter

#academicchatter

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In 1866, a remarkable movement swept across the South. Thousands of formerly enslaved Black men and women appeared before Freedmen’s Bureau officials to legally register marriages that had often existed for years—-or even decades.

It was one of the largest acts of family recognition in American history, yet few Americans know the story today.

Image: Soldier and Companion. United States, ca. 1861–1865. Quarter-plate tintype. Unknown photographer. Jackie Napoleon Wilson Collection.

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Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.

2.5 months left.

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#android #google #keepandroidopen

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
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The SpaceX IPO is Musk and the entire system's response to the anti-Tesla protests last year. If they want to crown and anoint a Nazi, they will, and there is nothing we can do about it.

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@Kalshann Exactly. It's not any system protecting Musk & Trump from justice. It's a huge group of extremely bigoted poor and working people. Trump won the working class despite getting crushed among the black working class. All that money is a tangible manifestation of how racist, sexist and generally bigoted the country is.
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Human billboards need to come back into fashion. Shit is too real for social media

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12 June 1936

"Otto Richter, a German Jew, and his wife protest against his deportation to Germany by the US immigration authorities, Ellis Island."

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MORE ART

JOAN MASTODON IN FRONT OF THE SPACE NEEDLE

#VantaArt #plushtodon #seattle #art

#art #seattle #plushtodon #vantaart

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I've been saying for a while, the real struggle, more than the fight for privacy, is the fight against information asymmetry. ICE and other enforcers of authority can see us through multitudes of Flock and other cameras, while we see can't even see their faces when they're in our faces. Even 30, 40, 50 years ago it was customary for cops to wear mirror shades. Perhaps you could recognize them, but you couldn't see their eyes. Not all information asymmetry is in the visual domain. There is also information asymmetry in accounting systems, where the question is, who is accountable to whom? We need to rewrite the world in ways that replace accountability with transparency, or accountability of systems and institutions to the larger public, really the largest public, worldwide humanity, while maintaining privacy for individuals. The current trend is toward the exact opposite. #pubwan
#pubwan

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@naomikritzer is a MSP hometown hero! In addition to her excellent fiction, she writes indispensable local election guides.

Her short story “The Year Without Sunshine” was an underground favorite here in MSP, and reads very differently now in hindsight after what we did during the ICE siege — like a prophecy, or an instruction manual.

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2026-06-09 13:45:37

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Kritzer is a master of building scenarios that require her characters to express and resolve a wide variety of complex and contradictory emotions. Her breakout novel, *Catfishing on the CatNet* is a charming and deceptively goofy story about an AI trained on the impeccable vibes in a really solid groupchat becoming sentient and demanding...cat pictures. This is the setup for a warm (but intense) novel of internet-mediated friendship and IRL mutual aid:

memex.craphound.com/2019/11/19…

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Naomi Kritzer’s “Catfishing on the CatNet”: an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX

Naomi Kritzer’s “Catfishing on the CatNet”: an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship
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When my wife and I were expecting our first, we joked about doing a gender reveal party where the big moment would come and it would be something pastel yellow (or otherwise completely ambiguous), and when the guests all acted confused or indignant, we would say "what did you expect would happen if _we_ did a gender reveal?!?"

We didn't know the sex of either of our babies until they were born.

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2026-06-09 10:19:08

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517) Genderrevealbot. "Oh, your father and I are so happy we persuaded you to throw one of these parties - I think they're so cute! Now let's cut the cake and find out whi...AAAH! OH GOD!" #SmallRobotsRemastered

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A CHALLENGE TO EFF: write a headline that names who is paying for these stalking laws to happen: Facebook/Meta, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI, Xitter, etc. etc.

you cannot antagonize further those who want you under their boot; even dead. so might as well make it personal.

1. everybody hates AI and data centers: MAKE THAT CONNECTION and ride that sentiment.

2. remind people of the aislopping scum with real names and faces who are waging class war; attacking our rights and freedoms.

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2026-06-07 18:02:01

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Laws restricting social media access based on age are spreading across the globe—from Australia and the UK to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the EU. These policies create serious risks for privacy, free expression, and access to information. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/inte…

Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat

The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents.
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Mousa Al Bateh | Cloud Security & Architect

Thank you for bringing this. I actually spoke about this multiple times, and I criticized LinkedIn for this. From cybersecurity perspective, the argument of requiring passports and biometric data to combat bots and fraud is flawed since collection of ID itself generates even more threats. Also, the crackdown on VPN is another issue that I'm critical of because for the same reason, we get our data exposed to multiple threats for similar argument. There are other more effective solutions.
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Here in Australia, it's been largely parents' and similar groups panic about "think about the children" demanding the federal government do something without knowing what that should be.

Then there's the "eSafety Commissioner" who seems to be waging a personal crusade against "big tech" exposing "our children" to cyber bullying and other harms.

And the only solution they came up with, (despite everyone with any expertise saying it was a bad idea), was blocking children from social media.

AI slop really has little to do with it. It's mostly about social media "stranger danger".

The social media companies opposed the legislation as they were given no guidance on how to implement the age verification other than they would be fined if they didn't comply. However, they've got the $$$ to comply. It'll be the smaller platforms that close, which has occurred in the UK.

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Alarming changes to federal election law.

Haven't heard a peep about this in mainstream media.

Could be Canada's "Citizen United"

#cdnpoli

Liberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warns
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Liberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warns

“They’re fine with the undemocratic influence of wealthy interests.”
Emma Paling (The Maple)
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If this doesn't turn the kids Straight Edge then nothing will...

#MikePence #BillMaher #420

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Of all the lies right wingers tell, the one I wish was true is the Democratic Party being full of radical leftists. That’d be pretty cool, but unfortunately it’s quite far from the truth.

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@Lazarou The GOP knows that the lies work on the Democrats, who have trapped themselves: they don't have the guts to declare openly that they're rejecting leftists because they need to maintain the fiction that leftism has no route to power except for them, and they keep shitting on leftists in various ways presumably in hopes of reassuring their GOP friends that they're still "moderate" or "centrist" rather than leftist, but the GOP merely laughs and smears the Democratic Party as radicals and commies anyway because the Dems ALWAYS yield to it and blame the mere existence of leftism for making their lives difficult.
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Demonising identity politics as "distracting from class politics" is honestly just the leftist version of "immigrants stole our jobs".

It erases the struggles of oppressed groups, dismisses anything that does not centre whiteness, and presumes to tell us how we ought to be responding to our own oppression. It doubles down on the glib idea that solving class problems will immediately solve every other problem in the world, which is simply not true.

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Canes fans yell “No means no!” at Carter Hart.

And yet the headlines are “Carter Hart becomes target of shocking chants”, “Carter Hart targeted by controversial chant”

WTAF

Edit:Carter not Corey!!!

#hnom

#hnom
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How was your Amazon delivery?

  • Drop kicked the package behind the bin (0%, 0 votes)
  • Delivered to a house a mile away (20%, 2 votes)
  • Took a photo of my feet the kinky bugger (50%, 5 votes)
  • Item folded to fit through letterbox (30%, 3 votes)
10 voters. Poll end: Sunday, June 7, 2026, 5:22 PM

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I can't help but noticing that the open source community seems to be fracturing along "left coded" and "right coded" lines. Examples of left-coded software might include Debian, GNOME, Antix, OpenSuse whereas right-coded software would definitely include Hyprland, OpenMandriva, Devuan, and probably GrapheneOS and OpenBSD.

Using search engines, it is very easy to find many, many lists of what anti-woke campaigners refer to as "non-woke software lists," but I can't find a curated list of anti-anti-woke open source projects. I tried searching for inclusive software, and I get lists of domain-specific open source software to facilitate specific axes of inclusivity in specific contexts, which is very useful information, but I'm mainly trying to decide on a Linux distro. Antix seems the most values-compatible, but also seems to be anti-Wayland. Is Wayland considered problematic? What about Sway?

One thing that I find troubling is that the more I look for things that are some combination of anticommercial, antiproprietary, anti-bloat, pro-privacy, non-systemd (because systemd obeyed in advance re. age verification), and the like, the more I also run into right wing subcultures and rage against the codes of conduct. I'd like to be more open source, not less, but also more inclusive and less freeze peach. I've wondered before, am I somehow a bad person for being drawn to non-proprietary technology: astoundingteam.com/2021/04/05/…

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How in the HELL did the left become so computer illiterate?
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Starting to wonder about BlueSky. The percentage of veterans in my Bsky follow requests seems shockingly high compared to the larger population. Things are looking almost as military as at Fecebook, where the majority of friend requests seem to come from U.S. Army generals stationed in Syria.

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