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#askfedi #banking #foss #bank #ethics #onlinebanking #duckduckfedi #online_banking #dataethics
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Does anyone have a screepcap or link saved of the interaction about a decade ago when a trans girl on reddit asked an adult cis man how often he thought about being a girl and his answer was something like "I dont think ive ever thought about that".

That interaction broke so many people and i wish i had properly secured it for posterity. My brain remembers the guys handle had Panda in it iirc.

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@valentine there is a fourth group which is small but may hopefully get bigger: people who were told all their lives, by at least some of the people around them, that they are the ones who ultimately know their own gender, that being trans is an actual possibility for them. I know some kids like that.

It seems a little like the tragectory that sexuality has taken (and some of this will likely depend on where you are). Nowadays, there are a lot more kids who grow up knowing that they might be gay, that they can just pay attention to their own feelings of attraction. It's not perfect; those kids are still moving through a highly heteronormative world. But it is easier than it was thirty years ago.

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the borg aren't actually evil terminator monsters, they're just big LLM evangelists that got a bit too into shoving it into everything and travel the universe in their giant ugly cybertrucks to tell everyone how great it is. It never worked on the ferengi because they were smart business people who saw the cost of those cybertrucks, and how generally useless the technology was and how unappealing it made people, it was just unmarketable crap.

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There's a bunch of media reporting - I don't know how accurate - that Windows 12 will require an NPU (a fake AI chip basically), which almost no PCs have, amongst other stupid features.

Requiring TPM in Windows 11 was stupid and created PC landfill during an economic, global and ecological crisis, to drive hardware profit margins and Microsoft Surface sales.

Requiring NPUs would do the same, during an additional cost of living crisis. If Microsoft go ahead with that, it's time to swap OS.

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If that's correct only the very latest CPU's have an NPU.

It's not going to be an upgrade option for 99.99% of PC's that exist today sort of adding an M.2 form factor NPU.

For many the new Mac Neo will be an attractive option, for 95% of common tasks it will probably be adequate.

Everyone else stays on Windows 11 or moves to Linux.

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If Microsoft go ahead with that, it's time to swap OS.


I know an OS is a much bigger deal than a browser, but this line made me think of the greentext that went something like this:

Google Chrome now forces you to tribute 1ml of blood per hour of use.

Chrome users, delirious from blood loss: "I swear, y'guys, I am this close to switching to Firefox!"

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"FBI counterterrorism teams on elevated alert

As part of the elevated alert, the FBI will likely increase surveillance on the ground and online"

Excellent, so now the US police state will have even more opportunity and justification to crack down on political opponents and flex their power even more

There really is no joke to make with Patel in charge, the joke is on Americans

Not to say the FBI were not completely corrupt before, bc they absolutely were

But its all so out in the open now

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I was thinking about this earlier.

The FBI has a long history of entrapment. They use undercover agents to get people to plot violence, then they arrest the people the feds covertly put up to that shit in the first place. Wouldn't shock me if they were working on some folks right now, trying to get them to plot a terrorist attack the FBI can then foil heroically.

Create a pretense for further eroding people's civil rights. Increase surveillance. Disappear dissidents.

I hope I'm wrong.

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AI, while useful when used responsibly, is turning the social web into a white noise machine where it becomes more and more difficult to find the relevant signals.

I'm kind of hoping that it's just the flavor of the season. Like the metaverse was a few years ago. And NFTs. Those were flooding platforms for a few months as well.

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One thing is really funny though: The sum of all users seems to be incapable of learning anything from past fads so we keep running through the same motions with every new so-called trend. It's the same. Every. Single. Time.

The sad part though: All of this draws our attention that we could use much better to build relationships and solve actual problems.

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From a comment I just made on LinkedIn.

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"#Hungary's opposition #Tisza party widens its lead ahead of #Orban's #Fidesz"

🤞 🤞 🤞

If Hungary goes sane in April, and then if enough of the lazy entitled lumps in the #USA show up to #vote in November (after showing up in the #primaries to get real left candidates: BE THERE), then we can put a real dent on our emergent #fascism

Fuck your #cynicism

VOTE

Let's do this, "degenerate Westoids" 🤭

#fascism #usa #vote #primaries #orban #tisza #fidesz #cynicism
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@Ox1de @mastodonmigration @moz @idahobucks

Well I'm not yelling at you, I'm yelling at nonvoters

And I fully expect them to not care. Or even double down on not voting because I yelled at them. As if someone motivated by emotion is an ally or even on the left. They're just useless entitled lazy assholes

The point of yelling at such people is for the sake of everyone else reading along

Who understand and identify those who don't vote: weak whiners, and resolve not to be like that themselves

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"The free market will sort it out" the free market sorted out child labour by saying yes please and we had to pass a law. That's how the free market sorts things out.
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The reality of being a trans person living in a red state is being aware that at any moment I might need to become an intra-state refugee.

If anyone is fleeing Kansas and needs a safe place to stop overnight on the way east, hit me up. I'm in Missouri. I can save you a hotel stop and feed you.

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PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this:

Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Bam, they have your address.

In particular, attack does not depend on an existing third party seller having poor PII handling hygiene, like the articles have implied.

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#1bit #pixelart #ドット絵 #픽셀아트 #像素画 #пиксельарт #dotchke #citrus #pixel_dailies @pixel_dailies

#pixelart #pixel_dailies #ドット絵 #픽셀아트 #像素画 #пиксельарт #1bit #dotchke #citrus @Pixel Dailies

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What's happening with our Black men, y'all?

Black men found dead hanging from a tree
Feb. 18, 2026 - Kyle Bassinga, Age 21 - GA
Sept. 15, 2025 - Demartravion "Trey" Reed, Age 21 - MS
Sept. 15, 2025 - Cory Zukatis, Age 36 - MS
Sept. 11, 2025 - Javion Magee , Age 21 - NC
June 18, 2025- Earl D. Smith- Age 58 - Albany, NY

Found dead hanging from a metal chain from a commercial bldg.
Sept. 17, 2024 - Javon Givan, Age 29 - New Mexico
#blackmastodon #blacklivesmatter

#blackmastodon #blacklivesmatter

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The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent.

Don't subscribe. Don't lease. Don't use their cloud. Don't slip down the freemium slope. Don't create accounts on their services.

Buy it once. Run it local. Avoid commercial software.

It'll be a huge pain and you'll be an outsider but it'll be endless, interesting, and hard fun that'll pay you back with a curious mind and an understanding of the fabric of our intellectual infrastructure that will make you light-years more capable, useful, and healthy than the "AI" zombies.

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I second this. It will also be a good filter, selecting for those with a good mix of curiosity and love of problem solving, attention to detail and ability to focus, that is being selected against. Qualities which need nurturing and exercise, and which will only grow in value, and in usefulness against life's challenges.

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Palantir Technologies is suing Republik Magazine over an investigation into Palantir’s activities in Switzerland, published in December 2025. The lawsuit demands a counterstatement and is currently being heard by the Zurich Commercial Court.
Read the story that made Palantir sue us — now available in English. #palantir #freemedia

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How tenaciously Palantir courted Switzerland

Internal documents show how the country finally rejected pitches by tech company Palantir.
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#palantir #freemedia
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In rapid succession:
- former British royal arrested
- former Korean president sentenced
- former Norwegian PM charged
- former French and Brazilian presidents imprisoned

And then there’s Trump and the Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Former Prince Andrew’s arrest, Yoon Suk Yeol’s sentence and the power of accountability

In many democracies, criminal suspects are often held accountable — even if they’re politically powerful, even if they’ve served at the highest levels.
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Well, for those of you concerned that you've just been labeled a domestic terrorist, take heart in the fact that you're joined by at least a third of the country. The most dangerous thing about declaring war on a large swath of your own citizens is, what if they take you up on it?
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So what exactly does it mean when the President signs a "domestic terrorism," or rather a national security directive declaring anyone left of Bull Connor is a terrorist? Well, I'm glad you asked, because for the most part US corporate media either didn't bother to report it, or treated it like another in Trump's long line of unhinged executive orders that are terrifying, but do not by themselves spring the full power of the US government into action. As this important article published by independent national security state critic Ken Klippenstein makes abundantly clear - this order has teeth, and represents "a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda."

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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

"With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence. Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.

“This is the first time in American history that there is an all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,” Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, referring to the issuance."

Okay you'll have to forgive me for heavy quotations, because what Ken articulated here, still hasn't sunk in enough to factor into the analysis of most corporate media minions. NSPM-7 is not only the backbone of Trump's authoritarian agenda right now, but if indeed America does become the nazi dictatorship of Trump (and the right)'s dreams, this barely reported national security directive may be the critical reason why. Since we already covered who NSPM-7 instructs to target (everyone who isn't a MAGA nazi and opposes Trump's fascist agenda, even nonviolently) I want to focus on the forces the Swine Emperor is bringing to bear on not just protestors, and activists, but scholars, media critics, elected officials, and literally anyone who isn't nice enough to nazis.

"NSPM-7 is fundamentally a law enforcement directive, and it dispenses with the complications of using the active duty military or the National Guard in pursuit of political violence. It directs the Department of Justice to focus the FBI’s approximately 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) to the new mission. The FBI network of task forces comprises over 4,000 members—including FBI personnel and task force officers (or TFOs) from more than 500 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies, including special agents, police officers, intelligence analysts and surveillance technicians. First established in New York City in 1980 to systematize FBI and NYPD cooperation, today there are task forces around the country, including at least one in each of the FBI’s 55 field offices.

For the Trump White House, the beauty of using an already existing network is that it bypasses Congressional oversight and scrutiny and even obscures federal activity to governors and legislatures at the state level. States, cities, and local police have already signed Memoranda of Agreements with the feds to fight terrorism and officers are already assigned as task force officers."

You read that correctly; by signing NSPM-7, the Swine Emperor just repurposed the entire federal counterterrorism apparatus consisting of thousands of murderpigs spread across the country to go after wine moms who call him a nazi, journalists who report on the nazi shit he does, and politicians who criticize his nazi regime in the public discourse. It's a microwave COINTEPRO operation, made to order.

"Now, with Donald Trump’s directive retooling the counter-terror apparatus to go after Americans at home, this means monitoring political activity, or speech, as an investigative method to discover “radicalism.”

The focus on speech is evident throughout NSPM-7. The directive says that political violence is the result of “organized campaigns” that often begin (with the left) dehumanizing targets in “anonymous chat foras, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions.”

Of course, NSPM-7 is written in enough right wing newspeak about "fomenting violence" to throw casual observers off the trail, but I think the part where NSPM-7 tells us who decides what is terrorism gives the game away.

“The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder,” NSPM-7 says.

So Pam Bondi gets to decide who is a terrorist now and yes folks, that says "civil disorder." Or, you know, a protest. Cool country we got here, huh?

#Trump #Fascism #NSPM7 #StephenMiller #PamBondi #PoliceState #COINTELPRO #Dictatorship #FBI


Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
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This reminds me of the time before gmail when HotMail went down over the Christmas weekend. It was back up in a few hours.

Turns out Microsoft forgot to renew a domain name. Some rando diagnosed it and paid to renew it for them before they even knew what was happening.

They "graciously" offered to compensate him the $35 he spent.

Possibly one of my early disillusionments about capitalism. The man deserved a goddamn reward.

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The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.
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Luis Falcon

At this point it would be crazy to develop any Free/Libre application for Android. Don't care what Google says tomorrow, we can NOT trust Big Tech. We need to be in control of our computing resources, both at software and hardware level.
PS: @EUCommission please take note.
#Google #Android #Freedom #GNU
#google #GNU #android #freedom @European Commission

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The European Parliament has voted for #Trans women to be recognised as women 🥳

Meanwhile in terf UK ....

#trans
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I like how Mamdani just…does things.

Democratic lawmakers and executives need to stop wringing their hands and trying to get bipartisan consensus and whatnot and actually DO THINGS that benefit people. Do a thousand little things that add up to a lifetime of benefits for a lot of people. Do the opposite of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Life and prosperity by a thousand good choices.

HAVE AGENCY. There are SO MANY low hanging fruit that lawmakers and executives can address even as they wrestle with the truly hard problems. Address what you can. Build the muscle.

“Mayor Mamdani Announces City Will Restart Construction of Four Halted Bus and Bike Lane Projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn”

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Mayor Mamdani Announces City Will Restart Construction of Four Halted Bus and Bike Lane Projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn

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Nicole Parsons

The constant naysaying by the Newspaper Axis is being shown to be bullsh*t already.

The social, economic, & environmental gains of free municipal transit alone are already astonishing.

What if we found out that nearly everything that billionaires have promoted was turning out to be a lie?!? Gasp!

jacobin.com/2019/08/uber-koch-…

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/a…

"Trickle Down Economics" & tax cuts for the rich
Climate denial
Immigration "reform"
Brexit
Vouchers
Deregulation

All self-serving bs.

Why are Koch-funded activists trying to derail a US city's public transit?

Phoenix will vote Tuesday on a light rail system expansion. It faces opposition from business owners backed by activists affiliated with the Koch network
Guardian staff reporter (the Guardian)

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No, “shariah law” is not taking over and anti-shariah bills are grounded in stupidity, not the Constitution. Watch as I dismantle the ignorant bigotry and Islamophobic hate from Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezol in just about 2 minutes.

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Georgia State Senator tries to “ban shariah law”

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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Very High: IA, IL, ME, MN, OH, SD, WV, WY

High: AL, IN, MI, NE, OK

Moderate: CT, DE, KS, KY, MA, MO, MS, MT, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VT, WI

Low: AK, AR, CO, GA, ID, LA, MD, NC, NM, NV, TN, TX, UT

Very Low: AZ, CA, DC, FL, GU, HI, OR, VA, WA

No Data: ND, VI

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Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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The FDA decided not to even review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccines for approval, even though the studies the FDA would be reviewing were conducted the way the FDA told Moderna to do them.

Now #Moderna expects that none of its other #mRNA #vaccines will be reviewed, and has halted studies on vaccines for EBV, HSV, and shingles.

A lot of people with herpes would be angry if they found out.

A lot of people who have family members with #MS -- now thought to be caused in part by EBV -- will be livid.

#ms #vaccines #Moderna #mrna
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“If we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files the whole system will collapse”!

🙄

That sounds as ridiculous as "if we tax the superwealthy like everyone else, they won't "create jobs".

Are we done with these cons yet?

All that will happen when we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files is that there will be room at the top for new people who are not part of a child rape and murder ring, and there will be less government, business, and diplomacy by blackmail.

Drain that swamp!

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Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.
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