the state earns millions leasing inmates
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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.
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Ça va devenir comme la Floride 😨
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 ».
fr.euronews.com/my-europe/2026…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 ». #EuropeNewsIrina Sheludkova (euronews)
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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.
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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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.
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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. 😛
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if every file on their computer is called their_name.pdf, then that would be even funnier :)
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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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Remarkable story of resistance, dignity, and connection in the face of oppression. Thank you for sharing.
Had not appreciated how gratifying it is to see all the background source material posted, either, in this age of hallucination and malleable “knowledge”. Also revelatory as praxis here.
Had not appreciated how gratifying it is to see all the background source material posted, either, in this age of hallucination and malleable “knowledge”. Also revelatory as praxis here.
Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.
2.5 months left.
#android #google #keepandroidopen
Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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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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Boot licking brown nosers who can't imagine anything outside their self-enforced bigoted bullshit. They'll crown the living embodiments of greed or hate who promises to fucking murder them if it means they can pretend to be important for even a fucking moment.
@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
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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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
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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
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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.
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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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.
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"
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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Apparently in Canada, one of the loopholes is an incentive for astroturfs to function as political parties. Shutting down all of the money-to-power conduits must be a monumental task in any polity. As always, freedom requires ETERNAL vigilance!
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If this doesn't turn the kids Straight Edge then nothing will...
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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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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. 😞
@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
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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.
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)
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Secret additional option : silently left propped against the front door in full view, driver fucked off and I found out when I noticed the delivery notification on my phone.
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?Lorraine Lee (In Defense of Anagorism)
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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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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 :
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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)
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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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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
45 years of governments practising neoliberal economic dogma on behalf of the rich has deeply hurt Societies all 'round the world.
Could neoliberalism come to an end or will it instead, precipitate a cataclism?
Could neoliberalism come to an end or will it instead, precipitate a cataclism?
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…
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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Cory Doctorow: Mark Carney is not a Carneyist.
#Canada’s Liberal Party is trying out its dangerous Third Way austerity approach again.
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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)
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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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@jwz I wonder if IMDB ever posted my comment about Stabler and Benson beating confessions out of people in back-to-back episodes
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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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The wealthy have easy access to the resources for financial alchemy to convert income to wealth and vice versa. This is why income tax and wealth tax both have to be in place, and probably a lot of continuing proactive loophole-closing in both programs.
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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.
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)
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#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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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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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. :(
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)
in reply to Dean Burnett (that brains guy) • • •- 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
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in reply to Dean Burnett (that brains guy) • • •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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