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I find myself always indulging a crtain fantasy in which I burn the Fun Half bumper (ideally all 3) including sound onto 16mm film and time travel back to the 1970s and sneak the film reel into the AV room of my childhood elementary school, perhaps borrowing the label from one of the educational films. In some versions of the daydream I edit out that one F-bomb.
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#MajorityReport #TimeTravel
If youβre not in Minnesota but still want to help, here are some projects to consider supporting:
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupationStand With Minnesota
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GET OUT THERE!
RAISE HELL!
ATTACK!
ARISE!
BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE!
BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM!
BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM!
ON THE BUS!
GET ON THE BUS!
RIDE THE BUS!
WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN!
CAN'T STOP THAT!
DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES?
THEY CAN'T STOP US!
I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT!
ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS!
ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS!
NOW IS THE TIME!
BECOME THE FUNGUS!
THE MULCH MUST FLOW!
TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!
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β Have you thought of starting your own #PeerTube channel?β
Are you looking to make original videos for other to watch and comment on? Are you looking to build a community around those videos?
Dudelike.wtf currently has 4 slots open for new account requests. Click on the link to learn more.
(please boost for visibility)
https://
mrfunkedude.com/peertube
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Is British media seriously pretending that the EU deployment to Greenland was to safeguard the arctic against Russia and not a message to Trump?
βCause thatβs the impression Iβm getting from them this morning
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Germany needs a new Trump strategy.
In 2025, German car manufacturer Volkswagen lost 8 percent of their car exports due to Trump tariffs, reports Danish Radio P1.
Germany tried speaking softly to Trump, and what did they get this week? More Trump tariffs.
Pleasing a bully NEVER works. It is time to show Trump that we are united and strong, and his attacks will cost him dearly.
Only then will he look for someone else to harass.
As the Canadians say: Elbows up!
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Suggestion for America:
Stop consuming March 1, 2026.
Nothing but food, gas & underwear until Dec 31, 2026. Save the money you would have spent, a significant chunk in cash.
The only spending exception: if you *have* to buy something essential or celebrate an event, it must be at locally owned business.
If everyone participates:
- those in power will understand the people's will
- everyone can afford a prolonged general strike, if necessary, starting Jan 1, 2027
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DuckDuckGo shouldnβt pull a Mozilla.
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.voteyesornoai.com
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I just noticed how, despite the 94% negative rating, thereβs still this breathless βCurious what a YES AI internet looks like?β at the bottom. They obviously would prefer a different outcome.
Can I get a taste of the no AI internet? Thatβs what I am more curious about.
#DuckDuckGo #FuckFuckNo
This one, itβs perfect. Engineer wanted. Zalman-Weiskopf drive just like your last two ships, a six week loop from here to Zeta Reticuli then on to Rho Persei and back home. Thatβs a fabulous opportunity; youβd have access to leave on all the planets in the Zeta Herculis group. The beaches of Phi Lupi are unforgettable!
Lemme see. Starship Roberta Flack, ten year old cargo lugger, complement of twenty, ship language is Spanish. Yeah this looksβwait, no. What else you got?
Whatβs wrong with that one?
Theyβre a dog crew. Once you ship out with a guinea pig gang youβre ruined for other pet preferences.
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it couldnβt be a cat crew of course. The ZW driveβs critical components cant take the beating from getting knocked off from where they stick out.
Now the void ships that harness the stored energy of cats chasing lasers, those take a different type of crew.
Google announced personal intelligence for Gemini which connects to Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search history to personalize answers to your questions.
The example query is βwhat size tires are on my car?β which it can figure out from pictures or documents about your car.
This is a new frontier in creating platform stickiness and vendor lock-in if it actually works as well as they claim.
blog.google/innovation-and-ai/β¦
Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence
Personal Intelligence connects the Gemini app to your Google apps to provide more personalized suggestions.Josh Woodward (Google)
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Positive Christianity said (among other things) that Aryans were the new chosen people of God, and that therefore, white people could do all the stuff Jews did in the Old Testament, including genocide.
It was a doctrine rather than a denomination. I assume this was so that both Protestants and Catholics could follow it.
When you find evidence of Nazis bad-mouthing Christianity, they are generally criticizing the majority of Christians who did not followβ¦
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β¦sell his sick ideas to the German public.
I hope people will keep all of this in mind. I do not know how the current fascist regime in the USA will end, but if the past is anything to go on, it will be ugly, and we can expect conservative Christians to immediately pin blame on someone else.
Please do not let them.
Please keep reminding people of Christian Nationalism and the role it played in turning America into what it is now.
Conservative Christians wanted to lie about the roleβ¦
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β¦Christianity played in Nazi Germany, just as they lie about the role of Christianity in American slavery or in the American Jim Crow era.
I get that peopleβs religion is tied to their sense of self-worth, and that they therefore would want to lie about the bad stuff their religion did in the past, but in this particular case, the lies will leave future generations vulnerable to similar manipulation by profoundly evil people.
The only guard against this is education.
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That sounds a lot like the sentiments of a significant portion of Americans, who say βIβm into religion, man, just not ORGANIZED religion.β
They have always been a part of the faith landscape, and they are about to become an outright majority.
Despite this, most people donβt think about them, talk about them, or even know what they think or feel.
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Yeah, that is how most βnone of the aboveβ theists are. They do not follow any specific religion (because organized religion is bad), but they tend to have vague spiritual beliefs that they consider unique to themselves.
It is weird that we finally have a name for them (even if it is a bad name). I remember talking to such people as a child in the 70s, and reading people expressing similar sentiments in the 1800s.
Addendum: When Positive Christianity came to America, it became a denomination. Each time it got exposed by the media as having a history with the Nazis, they changed their name and splintered into multiple factions.
At this point, you cannot identify them by name, only by what they teach.
If you are an American Christian, PLEASE teach your teenagers about the ideology of Positive Christianity and why those beliefs are bad. Otherwise, you leave them vulnerable. PC is still around.
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Just watched episode 8 and 9 of Chainsaw Man.
Never seen anything like it.
Got goosebumps the full 5 minutes at the end.
Insane. Absolutely insane.
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We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) β€
github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindβ¦
GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAIGitHub
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39C3 - AI Agent, AI Spy
Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stopping to ask permission ...YouTube
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Secure Messaging and AI Donβt Mix
A Privacy Failure Waiting to HappenDaniel Kahn Gillmor (American Civil Liberties Union)
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Here's my tl;dr version of the presentation: coywolf.com/news/productivity/β¦
βSignalβ President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare
With agentic AI embedded at the OS level, databases storing entire digital lives accessible to malware, tasks whose reliability quickly breaks down at each step, and being opted-in without consent, Signal leadership is sounding the alarm for the induβ¦Jon Henshaw (Coywolf)
"UK Vows to Make βNudificationβ Images Created by Grok Illegal"
UK leaders let Musk incite racial violence+overthrow of their country at racist rallies, & push them around about 'grooming gangs'
Doubt UK will even cut funding to his companies through gov contracts they give him and xAI, bc ultimately labor leadership in the UK believes in nothing beyond enforcing/strengthening existing hierarchy
And just like with Democrats in America their vapid politics paves the way for the ultra right
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The overall vibes Iβm getting from media on the X-slash-Twitter thing at the minute are:
βI really like Twitter despite everything because I have a huge audience, but Iβm feeling pressured to leave because of the CSAM thing. If only Elon would come out and say the CSAM thing is fixed* then I wouldnβt have to leave or feel bad about it.β
(* Which, of course, Musk will)
This also applies to the national regulators. The idea that itβs crossed a line now, but it was fine before.
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RE: mastodon.social/@StefanAlvemo/β¦
The USA has been holding the EU back, quietly sabotaging us out of "friendship" but really to maintain dominance.
Stefan Alvemo πͺπΊ (@StefanAlvemo@mastodon.social)
Transatlantiska relationen Γ€r dΓΆd. Cecilia MalmstrΓΆm har rΓ€tt: Vi mΓ₯ste sluta sΓΆrja och bΓΆrja bygga. πͺπΊπ¨ βAtt klamra sig fast vid ett USA-beroende NATO Γ€r livsfarligt.Stefan Alvemo πͺπΊ (Mastodon)
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Republicans: How dare you? You just call anyone who disagrees with you a Nazi.
Also Republicans: Stop making fun of my Nazi tattoo!
1ΒΌ-minute video
youtube.com/shorts/QfHS3-RnEpM
off duty ICE agent gets caught with Nazi tattoo
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. AuΓerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.YouTube
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They got new jobs! They are known as ICE.
Vance: ICE agents have βabsolute immunityβ from state laws β including murder
JD Vance said β in response to a reporter asking why the FBI and Federal agencies were blocking Minnesotaβs investigation into the ICE agent murder of Renee Nicole Good β that ICE agents have βabsolute immunityβ from state laws.
This is not law. This is fascism.
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Hereβs video with context, wherein JD Vance says ICE agents have complete immunity from state law and that investigations should end, saying that it is βpreposterousβ that people should care that a Federal ICE agent cold-bloodly executing a US woman in public on a city street, saying he was only βdoing his jobβ and they just want to βruin his life.β
(His job, apparently, being to execute innocent Americans on the street.)
To put it in cruder but more emotionally-MAGA-accurate terms, the idea that any killing some random bitch could hurt a good manβs career is fucking intolerable, enraging β and βpreposterous.β Particularly when he was βjust doing his jobβ and she was asking for it.
See also the entire reaction to βme too.β
And I assure you, thatβs how a big chunk of MAGA men feel about all of it.
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Heh, reminds me of this thing on quite few school books.
Pretty much the french book equivalent of "Home taping kills the music industry"
Danger: Le photocopillage tue le livre
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that portmanteau goes pretty hard actually
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It's hard for average citizens of the world to express their rightful displeasure with the #Trump regime
You can start with a #boycott of #Olympics2028 and #WorldCup2026
I say this as an American
Fuck my stupid fucking country
Shun us
As for my fellow Americans:
We HAVE to #vote in the #midterms
#MAGA and nonvoters are our enemies, our downfall. Shame and condemn them
#USA
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They see how much the potential diverges from the reality.
@obscurestar @ApostateEnglishman @Wyatt_H_Knott @KrajciTom @MikeImBack
Yup
They still vote in Venezuela
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Yes, it's a sad state of affairs that it's news for the US regime to follow court orders.
But it shows you how much their early sense of impunity has evaporated. They know they have been exposed for vindictive prosecution. They fear ridicule. They fear protests. They fear legal consequences.
Similarly, they flaunted the cruelty at CECOT early on; now they want the documentary hidden.
Accountability is coming and they know it.
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Will they try to stay in power? Of course.
Can they? No, not at this point. They've broken everything too quickly and too publicly. That's why you're starting to see rats leaving the sinking ship, even before the full release of the Epstein files and even before the AI bubble bursts.
I still hold out hope for a political resolution because of all the MAGA infighting and defections going on. But one way or another we will be rid of this regime.
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Well, my theory is these people were never very bright to begin with, and now they are in stark terror. Multiple cabinet members are cowering on military bases for housing, displacing military officers. Stephen Miller fled his home because of side walk chalk that read "DEI enriches us all."
As with Putin, the blatant crimes are meant to intimidate. They're flailing around lashing out like domestic abusers do, trying to cow their victim. Or they're whining that they're victims.
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Tired of the same old dystopias? Randomized Dystopia suggests a right that your fictional tyranny could deny its citizens!
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Artistopia's Xanga Site - Why The Music Industry Needs To Drop DRM, And Sell Unprotected Digital Music, NOW
After countless conversations and debates over the past eight years, I have come to think that the DRM issue is largely a question of which reality one believes to be true - and we must address the solution as such, too.web.archive.org
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Let's try this again.
This is the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that got pulled in the US, but aired and airs in Canada, and is, at this moment, watchable here:
alugha.com/videos/faa16010-e02β¦
If that goes down, try here: archive.org/details/60minutes-β¦
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@CStamp Yeah, that's why I uploaded it to this European server. And also shared it directly on Mastodon here: mastodon.online/@davidaugust/1β¦
And here's a local version that's less than 75MB:This is the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that got pulled in the US, but aired and airs in Canada, and is, at this moment, watchable here directly on Mastodon:
#USpol #HumanRights #immigration #torture #cecot
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CBS all contrite now after Trump's little slap across the chops, pulls a piece on the conditions of the El Salvador prisons people get disappeared to.
Bari Weiss is thirsty for the sort of prominence being an obedient mouthpiece can grant someone with so little skills, talent, work ethic or morals.
Her owners want to be in Trump's corrupt inner power circle. A match made in a flash office with implied or overt threats as icing.
Asked an actual journo their take on Ms Weiss. Looked like this.
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at one end we executing fishermen and drivers because the possibility exists they may have a bag of powder.
at the other end we allow abusers, genociders, ecociders to go free to do as much abuse, genocide, and ecocide as they want without consequences.
both degeneracies are happening today.
perhaps there is some middle ground to be explored where actual harm is confirmed, and perpetrators of real harm are rendered unable to do it again.
this isn't a happiness post. but it is a hopeful one.
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it seems like what I suggested would be objectively better in every possible way?
better than autocrats dictating which children die I mean as punishment for having attended a protest for example.
better than allowing men who prey on women to continue to be able to see or speak or retain any the use of their hands.
how badly do we want humanity to keep hurting itself, when we can just... fix it.
I should probably think something pleasant now shouldn't I.
I dont feel guilt for having a life of abject safety, freedom, love, fun, and abundance.
my problem is that I simply want the same thing for every other human being on Earth.
hence my frustration and disgust at what I'm up against.
Bring back the word "poser."
That's what all these guys are. They're posers.
We didn't let that shit fly in the 90s.
Sellouts and posers.
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- yes (79%, 19 votes)
- no (8%, 2 votes)
- idk (12%, 3 votes)
- I use w3m or Lynx (0%, 0 votes)
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The mask is off concerning every type of fascism and corruption, so yeah, I expect they will soon pull the plug on even the pretense of controlled "opposition" in the form of Gecko-based browsers
Perhaps Ladybird will emerge as the #2 alternative. They rely on commercial sponsors, most of which seem to be tech firms. So far, none are what I would call "tech giants," or GAFAM-scale outfits. But will they be able to say no to tech giants indefinitely? I wouldn't count on it, and even if they can maintain (relative) independence, if their audience share doesn't break into double digits, no websites will make any attempt to support it, let alone test on it.
The sheer complexity of the standards comprising the web stack is too complex for a standards-compliant browser to be realistic as a noncommercial, let alone "garage" project. Perhaps the indie parts of online culture should migrate en masse to Gemini, which can be supported by the kinds of technologies amateurs can implement successfully on their own time. Those indie types of course will still use main$tream browsers for their online banking or whatever, but it's a start.
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in reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber • • •Kind of thing that sometimes makes me wonder how far have the various amount of patches I've sent have went.
And reminds me that I've even sent two reports to guix, without even having used it (was binary blobs I detected on gentoo and that guix didn't remove/workaround either).