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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.

Cory Doctorow

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
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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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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.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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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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David P

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)
#cdnpoli

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If this doesn't turn the kids Straight Edge then nothing will...

#MikePence #BillMaher #420

#billmaher #mikepence

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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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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen

@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/…

How in the HELL did the left become so computer illiterate? – In Defense of Anagorism

How in the HELL did the left become so computer illiterate?
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4GB is much more RAM than I need for any of the things I do with a computer with the exception of running a "modern browser." The two browser engines are bloated because the web standard is bloated. The web standard is bloated because the bodies that maintain the standards have boards packed with software industry types who want to re-engineer the protocol stack into a monetization platform. Surfing the bloated web is literally the only thing driving any demand for memory products on my part.

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Reminder : This Magdenburg killer called the radical right Geert Wilders a hero. And once again Geert Wilders (like with Anders Breivik) got away with his decades long xenophobia and discrimination remarks on Twitter and in the Lower House of parliament.

Article showing a Wilders tweet and the "hero" reply by the Magdenburg killer :

mintpressnews.com/a-saudi-athe…

Article from today about the Magdenburg killer and a request for life sentence :

rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik…

#xenophobia #racism #discrimination #GeertWilders #PVV #Magdenburg #germany #extremeright #violence

Levenslang geëist tegen aanslagpleger kerstmarkt Maagdenburg

Aanklagers in Maagdenburg hebben een levenslange gevangenisstraf geëist tegen Taleb A. om een aanslag op een kerstmarkt in de stad. Daarbij werden op 20 december 2024 zes mensen gedood en raakten ongeveer driehonderd anderen gewond.
RTL Nieuws / ANP (RTL.nl)
#racism #germany #violence #xenophobia #discrimination #pvv #extremeright #geertwilders #magdenburg

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La fortune d’Elon Musk est supérieure au PIB de 172 pays

legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/06…

Le milliardaire américain, dont la fortune pourrait dépasser les 1 000 milliards de dollars dans les prochaines semaines, a accumulé en 30 ans l’équivalent de 11 millions d’années de travail d’un Américain percevant le revenu médian.

La fortune d’Elon Musk est supérieure au PIB de 172 pays

Le milliardaire a accumulé l'équivalent de 11 millions d’années de travail d’un Américain percevant le revenu médian.
Marin Saillofest (Le Grand Continent)

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I am tired of the filthy rich telling consumers what they “must” do.

And it was a mass failure to have allowed individuals to become filthy rich, able to wield too much power.

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The next stage we need to move to is class consciousness that the rich are intrinsically evil, if only because that much wealth disparity brings out the absolute worst in people. The wealth makes them evil.

I’m thinking of the comments made by Bezos about you know how government is bad with undercurrent that somebody like him is virtuous and would do good. We only have to look at the working conditions and their warehouses and fulfillment centers.

The root cause is wealth

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Adesso qualcuno mi spieghi come si può concepire una macchina empatica.
Dire macchina empatica, è come dire dittatore democratico.
Intelligenza artificiale, non ti fidare mai se scrive queste parole: come capire quando non è affidabile webnews.it/intelligenza-artifi…

Intelligenza artificiale, non ti fidare mai se scrive queste parole: come capire quando non è affidabile - Webnews

Se un chatbot ti parla con eccessiva cordialità, sorridendo virtualmente ad ogni frase e cercando di mostrarsi empatico, forse dovresti alzare le antenne.
Silvia Dalia (Webnews)

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ukpol anti-benefits propaganda

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Cory Doctorow: Mark Carney is not a Carneyist.

#Canada’s Liberal Party is trying out its dangerous Third Way austerity approach again.

pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/rup…

Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)
Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
#canada

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The important thing is to be continuously patching vulnerabilities in the tax code as new exploits (loopholes) are discovered. The democratic process, being a deliberative process, is at a huge disadvantage in this. There needs to be a way to delegate the authority to make adjustments to the tax code to actual experts in tax strategy, subject of course to legislative enactment within a year. It would be much more democratic in the long run, more in keeping with the spirit of democracy.

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Lorraine Lee

Millionaires might need a little encouragement to invest in tangible productive assets rather than derivatives and crypto "assets" and other casino capitalism fluff. Even without such incentives for the millionaires, taxing billionaires will do a lot more to prevent more "asset" bubbles than taxing millionaires. Billionaire money is what really inflates things to extremes.
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Apparently you can't use Facebook Marketplace on your phone anymore without installing the app. (Unless someone can give me a workaround option).

Thanks but no thanks, this was literally the only thing I used Facebook for anymore, and the last thing I want is Zuck's spyware on my phone.

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The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has been fixed. (bugs.mysql.com)

bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1147…

#bug #programming #sql #mysql

MySQL Bugs: #11472: Triggers not executed following foreign key updates/deletes

bugs.mysql.com
#sql #bug #programming #mysql

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jublywubly:

I wish people would stop calling them apps. They're not applications, they're programs. An application is how a program is used.


My pet peeve too, even more than referring to directories as folders. I even have to correct myself sometimes when I catch myself saying (or even thinking) "app" or "folder," the messaging is so pervasive. Every single aspect of being an active (as opposed to passive) user of technology is an adversarial process every single step of the way. Even on the mental level, with what word comes to mind.

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Am I the only one that finds it comical that with all the pressing problems facing our country, our willfully inept Congress can’t even mitigate the phone spam problem? In stricter countries, you still get scams but less of the “I signed up once and now 200 companies are calling me” behavior.

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I mean this is what I am saying to you, clearly:

Nobody is gonna stop him. At all. Ever. There is no "too far" point where the entire system will collapse in on him because THIS time, he's done too much. It does not exist. And yeah that means when they're fucking gassing people like it's the Holocaust, he will ALSO not be stopped by the system.

That is my ENTIRE fucking argument. That's what I been telling you this whole time.

Your checks and balances are a joke. Rules for you, not rich men

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GUYS I’M IN A NEW DARKWAVE DUO 🦇🦇🦇

holy shit it’s been hard sitting on this since march :blobcatblush:

we’re called Death Drive, IG is here: instagram.com/deathdriveldn/ and we'll also be posting to mastodon here: @deathdrive

our first show is June 18th supporting ULTRA SUNN in London!!! 🎵

tickets here!!!!: dice.fm/event/oeg2xa-ultra-sun…

insanely psyched for this, hope to see some of you there 🖤🖤🖤

P.S we had to write an entire setlist in 2 months so no time for photoshoot and that’s why the pic is just me 😎

ULTRA SUNN Tickets | £19.80 | 18 Jun @ Oslo Hackney, London | DICE

Night Terrors will be hosting Belgian coldwave act ULTRA SUNN for their next London headline at OSLO, Hackney next June.
DICE
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LineageOS fixed the VPN bypass bug discovered in Android 16, which Google refuses to fix at the time of writing.

Good work! @LineageOS

The patch will presumably be adopted soon by @iode and other LineageOS forks.

GrapheneOS has already patched this bug too.

You can learn more about the bug here: mullvad.net/en/blog/any-app-on…

Sources: review.lineageos.org/c/Lineage…
grapheneos.org/releases#202605…

#android #lineageos #cybersecurity #dataprotection #privacy #vpn

Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic | Mullvad VPN

A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.
Mullvad VPN
#privacy #cybersecurity #vpn #android #dataprotection #lineageos @iodé @LineageOS
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PBS: A live feed on the Global Sumud Flotilla website showed armed Israeli soldiers boarding the vessels as activists in life vests put their hands up. Soldiers then destroyed cameras mounted on the vessels. pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli…

Israeli forces intercept the remaining activist flotilla vessels headed for Gaza

PBS News

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I hate random calls that are spam anyways.
Just give up, I will never pick up.
I only ignore unkown numbers.
But its dont help to block them, they will always come back with new ones.
It was quiet a long time but since yesterday they start to get annoying again.

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"when it comes to technopolitics, object permanence eludes even full-grown lawmakers. These motherfuckers would lose a game of peek-a-boo."

Cory Doctorow

2026-05-19 08:25:34

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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: There's no such thing as "age verification"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/she…

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)
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Intelligence in the IQ sense is bullshit. Intelligence in the CIA sense has real consequences. My view on that is that people must build their own intelligence agency which, in contrast with the CIA, specializes in DECLASSIFYING knowledge. The CIA itself needs to be DISASSEMBLED, in the assembly language sense.

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The Times, Atlantic, USA Today, and various other publications are blocking Wayback Machine because it undermines their paywalls.

They shouldn’t have paywalls in the first place, but that’s another discussion.

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2026-05-12 23:01:05

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Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.

Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.

Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders…

#WaybackMachine


Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

Fight for the Future

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When people are disconnected from the internet, it can impact everything — access to essential info, how they receive medical care, or communication with loved ones. Whether it’s from the government or natural disasters, you can prep in advance to limit the impact of such shutdowns. 🧵 (1/9)
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LukefromDC

This is a concern NOW, due to the FCC's proposed extension of "know your customer" rules to individual cell SIM customers. This would reqiure ID, verified address, and background check against "terrorism" lists just to get a phone number. The proposal looks like it was written for major business customers with telemarketing spam as the target but if not changed could apply to everyone.

Workarounds would be data-only SIMS if the "voice service provider" language stays in the final language, international data-only SIMS if it does not, and if that gets blocked too millions will only be able to use decentralized mesh networks, which hopefully would be bridged to the external internet

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Part of me really sympathizes with Americans because I very much believe in democracy and the power of the vote...but Republicans have almost completely nullified the ability to course correct at the ballot box, because they have realized the pro-democracy coalition doesn't have the will to prevent them using illegal, unconstitutional & unethical methods to rig elections.

I fear that the time to show them that the cost of attempting this brazen theft was too high has passed.

#USPol #politics

#uspol #Politics

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Alabama Republicans Pass Last-Minute Gerrymander in Middle of Election

Republicans want to stop an active election so they can redraw the maps and strip Black political power.

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Alabama Republicans Pass Last-Minute Gerrymander in Middle of Election

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Tom's political theory for this moment in time...

When "sensible" Centre-Left parties don't deliver meaningful positive change for society, Right-wing populist parties flourish.

(I am so incredibly smart for realising this... well, at least smarter than the Centre-Left parties spiraling into oblivion)

#AusPol #UkPol #USPol

#uspol #ukpol #auspol
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