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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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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

The New Republic

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UK politics

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#ukpolitics #ukpol #election2026

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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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A please @labouruk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
@labouruk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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We could have open source, cooperatively built ed tech, where students and faculty write specs, fix bugs, test, and develop features, instead we have a private sector boondoggle.

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2026-05-07 21:02:22

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NEW w/ @lorenzofb: Hackers have defaced a bunch of school login pages for Canvas, the student portal made by ed-tech giant Instructure.

This appears to be the latest effort by the ShinyHunters to apply pressure on the company.

techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/hack…


Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack | TechCrunch

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)

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International payment duopoly

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Ted Turner is dead. The man wasn't great by any means - but he co-created Captain Planet when everyone was making toy commercials instead of entertainment, and it's not nothing.

So kick a corporate or fascist polluter in the balls in memory of Turner. He may not of liked it, but it's a better legacy than any billionaire deserves.

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Spanish newspapers are keeping track of the #hantavirus ship as it moves towards the Canary Islands where remaining passengers will be examined and repatriated.

What’s new to me in this report is that 23 people got off the ship in St Helens, and nobody was keeping track of them.

These 23 individuals are now the subject of an international contact tracing effort led by the World Health Organization (#WHO), as the outbreak is linked to the #Andes strain of hantavirus, which can spread between humans. One of these passengers, a Swiss citizen, has since tested positive and is receiving treatment in Zurich.

Y’all remember how covid got its first big push? A cruise ship. It docked, the Trump admin sent healthcare workers to deal with it, then those healthcare workers got on national airlines and flew around the country, and a few weeks later…epidemic.

Unbelievable that these people weren’t being monitored for a human to human spread vector.

#who #Andes #hantavirus

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Today is the fourth anniversary of the surgery I needed for colon cancer. I have a year and a few months left of surveillance before I can throw myself a party, but so far, so good.

#FuckCancer but also our medical system, which wanted to diagnose me with depression 🙄 rather than listen to what was going on before I got to Stage IIIc. I am lucky, because people a decade younger have died of this.

Stay on your doctors for better care, stay on your politicians for better #publichealth

#publichealth #fuckcancer

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It's annoying that Ron DeSantis says data centers are extremely unpopular and shouldn't be allowed to drive up electricity bills, at the same time Tucker Carlson is saying patently obvious things about Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians, if only because they can see which way the wind is blowing where Democrats, being bought and paid for, simply cannot.

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Raymond

Star Destroyers were originally presented as invincible, but with an exposed shield generator at the top, which makes them vulnerable to attack.

Then in Star Wars: TIE Fighter, they became rather vulnerable to heavy rockets and space bombs, as if they had no point defense.

It might be hard to judge a straight up engagement, but it's likely the fighters are going to do all the work.

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A new fediverse platform might be dropping!

#fediverse #fedibook

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2026-03-22 00:45:47

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Meet Fedibook!

The idea came from thinking about what it actually takes to get regular users onto the fediverse. Mastodon is great (i love it), but the follow-based model feels unfamiliar to some. Friends and Groups though — that's something everyone already understands.

So Fedibook is a fediverse platform built around exactly that, using ActivityPub. Think federated address book meets social network, with the kind of social graph people are already used to.

Current status:

- Friend requests across servers working
- News feed working, with visibility levels: public, friends-only, or local server only

Hoping to open up for early testing and feedback soon. Open source of course.

#fediverse #activitypub #fedibook #danmarkskifter


#fediverse #fedibook
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"une batterie de 82 kWh bruts et 77 kWh utiles. Au fil du temps, la marque débloquera peu à peu les 5 kWh inutilisés via des mises à jour à distance pour compenser l’éventuelle usure."

Ils vendent un système à double fond avec une arnaque de contrôle à distance.
Et ils s'en vantent !!

La merdification est sans limite.

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Happy anniversary to Neneh Cherry’s debut album, ‘Raw Like Sushi’. Released this week in 1989. #nenehcherry #rawlikesushi #buffalostance #manchild #kissesonthewind
#nenehcherry #rawlikesushi #BuffaloStance #manchild #kissesonthewind

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A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

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"At 440 acres, Sibley Prairie in Brownstown Township is conserving some of the last acreage of lakeplain prairie in the world.

Lakeplain prairie, or a Lakeplain Wet Prairie, is a seasonally wet biodiverse landscape in the lakeplains of the southern Great Lakes.

Less than 0.5% of Michigan’s original 160,000 acres of lakeplain prairie remain, according to the Michigan Natural Features Inventory."

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#SibleyPrairie #LakeplainPrairie #Michigan

Detroit nature group joins Sibley Prairie coalition to preserve ‘last of its kind’ landscape

Less than 0.5% of Michigan's lakeplain prairie remains. Activists race to protect 440-acre Sibley Prairie before it's sold to developers.
Ian Solomon (Planet Detroit)
#Michigan #sibleyprairie #lakeplainprairie

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Je ne sais pas qui et comment sont choisis les avatars des personnalités dans Google News mais je trouve savoureux que le mugshot de Marine Le Pen vienne du site du Kremlin, coupé à partir d'une photo prise lors de sa rencontre avec Vladimir Poutine. kremlin.ru/events/president/ne…

Встреча с Марин Ле Пен

Владимир Путин встретился с лидером политической партии Франции «Национальный фронт» Марин Ле Пен.
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Frank Liberati, #Detroit Democrat, files suit to deadname fellow Dem candidate.

See, it's this kind of shit. I applaud Hertel for standing up for her, but Frank Liberati needs to be named and shamed. Doing my part.

“I’m just here trying to talk about getting our utility bills down, I’m here trying to get single-payer healthcare in the state of Michigan,” she said. “These are the things that I’m talking about, and everyone else is bringing up my gender.”

Whaley also expressed her initial shock that she would be facing these types of attacks from within her own party."

#Michigan #MichiganDems #TransgenderCandidates #JoanneWhaley

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Downriver Dem files complaint against primary opponent, a trans woman, over her name on the ballot • Michigan Advance

A Democrat running for Michigan’s 2nd House District in November has filed a campaign complaint against one of his primary opponents, a transgender woman, alleging that she violated state campaign law by not listing her deadname on her affidavit of i…
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#Michigan #detroit #michigandems #transgendercandidates #joannewhaley
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Kim

@deirdrebeth

In the article I included there's more of an explanation.

Edit: ope, she did not, in fact, include said article. 😃

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Downriver Dem files complaint against primary opponent, a trans woman, over her name on the ballot • Michigan Advance

A Democrat running for Michigan’s 2nd House District in November has filed a campaign complaint against one of his primary opponents, a transgender woman, alleging that she violated state campaign law by not listing her deadname on her affidavit of i…
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When I found out my husband was cheating on me, I didn't confront him, i bought a burner phone made some anonymous social media accounts, and sent him proof he was cheating, along with a demand for money, and a threat to tell his wife.

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The First Amendment and the FCC’s mandate do not permit the agency to use broadcast licenses as weapons to punish broadcasters for constitutionally protected content they air.

Read our statement:

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FCC plan to challenge Disney broadcast licenses amounts to ‘illegal jawboning’

The FCC is neither the journalism police nor the humor police
Freedom of the Press

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Dear Star Trek shows…

Star Trek fans don’t care about special effects. They just don’t. You could have the greatest CGI background you want, but if the story doesn’t speak to the heart of what Star Trek is, the fantastic ship battles and stellar scenery won’t mean shit.

So please, take that CGI money, and spend it on writers who know the show.

Thanks.

#StarTrekSNW #StarTrek

#startrek #startreksnw

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That Old Guy with the Beard

For example: Deep Space Nine has any number of episodes which have very little, if any, moments in space, but is rammed to bursting with examinations of morality, decisions of governance, and the human condition.

Science Fiction can be a thriller, but it can also not be and still be SF. This proves that the ‘thriller’ stuff of — zoooooom — and — pew! pew! — is totally fun but not *necessary*.

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@IanAMartin I’ve always put it this way: good sci-fi (or any genre, really) is about people and relationships, no matter the setting. Case in point: The Expanse. Sure, there’s lots of star gateway razzle and earth-shattering rock throwing dazzle, but the core of the story is the Roci crew and their dynamic, and how they fit into this complex world of system politics with Chrisjen Avasarala, Anderson Dawes, Fred Johnson, etc. @Mrfunkedude
@Mr. Funk E. Dude 🤡 @That Old Guy with the Beard
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@Sir_Osis_of_Liver
Fair. Like any art, it’s not for everyone. No one is going to like everything, and not everyone will like one thing.

I like politics and struggles of will and so on, and feel less interested by stories of war and battle strategy.

Thankfully, Star Trek’s universe can have both!

@Sir Osis of Liver 🇨🇦 🇲🇽
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