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.
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. 😛
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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.
#android #google #keepandroidopen
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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Human billboards need to come back into fashion. Shit is too real for social media
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
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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.
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 friendshipCory Doctorow (Cory Doctorow's MEMEX)
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Reading Doctorow’s praising this other author’s work bring to mind criticism of another dude who famously lifted from and then never promoted or even mentioned Tanith Lee, who could have used the help later in her life
Nice to see one writer boosting another
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.
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.
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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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.
Alarming changes to federal election law.
Haven't heard a peep about this in mainstream media.
Could be Canada's "Citizen United"
Liberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warns
readthemaple.com/liberal-looph…
“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...
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to European eyes it's a two party system and both parties are on the Right.
Not good, not surprising how the USA has found itself in this mess tbh. 😞
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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
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Yep. I followed it pretty closely. Which is why I don’t think changing no means no is at all controversial.
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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?Lorraine Lee (In Defense of Anagorism)
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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
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)
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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.
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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Pour comparer, la fortune d'un clodo :
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
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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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)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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When employers get access to credit scores, and credit scores penalize non-use of credit, what you have is the loan shark scheme seen in On the Waterfront.
Some chance at ten percent a week! And if he don't borrow, he don't work.
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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
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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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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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droopy face might stop him - supposed to be a sign of mini strokes.
Ofc, you meant "him" as in the blond beast of fascism he's unleashed, so no, you're right, unfortunately, nothing. :(
GUYS I’M IN A NEW DARKWAVE DUO 🦇🦇🦇
holy shit it’s been hard sitting on this since march 
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 😎
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
A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.Mullvad VPN
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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."
Today's threads (a thread)Inside: There's no such thing as "age verification"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/she…
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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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Jon Sterling
in reply to Omar Antolín • • •High Quality Tormented Soul
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in reply to Omar Antolín • • •Omar Antolín
in reply to 𝓙. 𝓜. • • •Rafael M.
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in reply to Rafael M. • • •John Burns
in reply to Omar Antolín • • •I told my students that anonymous files (prior: no name papers) don't get graded.
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Always amazed that people were surprised by that policy.
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in reply to John Burns • • •Simon Michalke
in reply to Omar Antolín • • •Throwback when I confused my Prof when I sent him a "master.pdf" which contained by bachelor thesis because I used to call my main .tex file "master.tex".
(Nowadays I just use main.tex ...)
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in reply to Simon Michalke • • •Alexander Knochel
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in reply to Alexander Knochel • • •Tom Hayward
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