I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I've learned from the experience.
the-reframe.com/1-year-after-sβ¦
1 Year After Substack
State of the newsletter 2025, a vacation, a new book, and some thoughts upon the 1-year anniversary of moving The Reframe.A.R. Moxon (The Reframe)
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From Guido Palazzo on LinkedIn: "In 1931, all Italian University professors were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Mussoliniβs fascist regime. Out of approximately 1,200 professors, only twelve refused to take that oath."
Ernesto Buonaiuti
Mario Carrara
Vito Volterra
Lionello Venturi
Giorgio Levi della Vida
Gaetano De Sanctis
Piero Martinetti
Bartolo Nigrisoli
Francesco Ruffini
Giorgio Errera
Fabio Luzzatto
Edoardo Ruffini Avondo
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In 1931, all Italian University professors were required to swear an oath⦠| Guido Palazzo | 127 comments
In 1931, all Italian University professors were required to swear an oath of loyalty to Mussoliniβs f*ascist regime. Out of approximately 1,200 professorsβ¦ | 127 comments on LinkedInGuido Palazzo (www.linkedin.com)
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"Everyone is fair game," the official said.
The context is 1)#universities & 2) everyone who the administration"deems pro-Palestinian Universities must band together. One university's negotiation w/#Nazis opens the door to all.
The #fascists' goal is to make this true regardless of context & of a specific political issue. When the State Dept official says everyone, he means everyone. We are all Venezuelans & students. Our democracy & our bodies are being kidnapped.
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So, a cis male writer creates a TV show*** with a character that alludes to having an interest in being transfem, who is played by a cis man, and that TV character is being used by (cis) TERFs to portray trans women as fetishistic men because the TV character fits into a distorted, bigoted psychological theory penned by a cis man.
As usual, we have a long fucking chain of cis people talking shit about trans people with no actual trans people in the discussion.
***(The White Lotus)
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This is the kind of shit that EVERY group of oppressors does to groups lower than them in the social hierarchy. They engage in long chains of distorted discourse about the targets of their prejudice which cobble together dehumanized, pathologized images of the targets of their prejudice. These distorted images are then used as justification for abusing the targeted group in question.
It's the same fucking pattern.
And fuck Mike White, his shitty TV show, and every cis asshole with an opinion.
It looks like Mike White wrote "Dispicable Me 4." I guess that's a sequel I'll never see.
Eh, whatever. The series already has 4 movies. I can't say I feel motivated to watch a fifth movie.
And critics gave it subpar reviews.
Plus, I remember the second movie being a racist disaster.
(EDITED: I initially said the 3rd movie. It was the 2nd movie that had racial stereotypes of Latinos.)
The Fediverse is made up of millions of different voices. Many disparate, unique pieces, coming together to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Itβs like stone soup.
Or Frankensteinβs monster.
Welcome⦠to Fedi Vale.
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Ron DeSsntis wants to lower the age kids can work to make up for the migrant deportations. Whatβs next? Raise retirement age to 75?
The #FascistGOP created the problem, let their kids work the harvests and rebuild homes after hurricanes.
When the #GOP come for #Medicare, #MAGA is going to be pretty pissed when Mom & Dad move in with their kids.
In only 66 days Trump has broken so many things. I think people should have taken Project 2025 seriously.
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Ooooooooooooh.
#Zig files are, themselves, structs.
This is awesome, and explains some of my confusion around namespacing and stuff.
Also: custom formatters for structs? So nice. Love the member accessing syntax.
Hot damn I haven't been this excited about a language in a few years.
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No idea what it's called but if someone wants to tell me feel free lol
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A website guiding users to disable their adblocker is no different than a phishing email asking users to disable their security software.
Both intend to do you harm.
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I considered a few Disney movies when I was in the used books/movie store after my doctor's appointment today.
Then I remembered their fuckery around trans people and moved on.
I don't even feel all that great about buying used Disney crap at this point.
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Instead, I bought a Daniel Craig mystery thriller from 2011 that I had never heard of. I just checked the movie reviews. Critics totally panned it.
It's still better than Disney.
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I see the other movie I got also had bad reviews.
Oh dear.
I'm going to blame this on the UTI.
I assume it isn't Cowboys and Aliens π Surely not The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, or Tintin, which was good but I wouldn't describe it as either a Daniel Craig movie or a mystery thriller.
Dream House? I've never heard of it either, and it has both Rachel Weisz and Naomi Watts in it so I'm not sure why I'm not watching it right now given my profoundly positive feelings toward both of them. You'll have to let us know how it is.
@intransitivelie It's Dream House. You're good!
I liked Cowboys and Aliens, Dragon Tattoo, and Tintin, btw.
Cowboys and Aliens seemed like it might be just silly enough to be enjoyable, but I never followed through on that suspicion. I'll have to do so one of these days.
And I confess I just looked at Mr. Craig's filmography and eliminated impossibilities a la Sherlock Holmes π
I hear good things about Knives Out etc. Have you seen those?
If you ever get the chance, Archangel is enjoyable enough, though it's a miniseries rather than a movie. Daniel Craig is pretty good in it and it's an interesting premise, if you like thriller-ish political dramas.
@intransitivelie I found Knives Out to be quite enjoyable. You should see it!
Thanks for the tip on Archangel. I'll check it out.
@timberwraith
Why are working-class people conditioned to feel ashamed about owing unjust debt? Why are we constantly told to embrace personal responsibility and βpull ourselves up by our bootstrapsβ? Because the ruling class spends billions shaping these narrativesβencouraging us to police ourselves and each other instead of building solidarity.
Debtor solidarity is powerful. And we can fight back.
debtcollective.org/event/100-dβ¦
100 Days: From Shame to Solidarity β Politicizing & Sharing Your Story - Debt Collective
Why are working-class people conditioned to feel ashamed about owing unjust debt? Why are we constantly told to embrace personal responsibility and βpullβ¦Marg Palmquist (Debt Collective)
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Lol
Edit - this is a person who's set up a parody account and posts from it. Not a bot.
![The image shows a social media profile page with a dark gray background. At the top, there is a colorful flag with horizontal stripes in the order of the rainbow, followed by additional stripes in black, brown, light blue, and pink, representing the transgender pride flag. Below the flag, there is a profile picture of a person with short black hair and a blue shirt. The username "nicole" is displayed in white text, followed by the handle "[@]nicole[@]fediversechick.lol" in white text. A blue "Follow" button is visible on the right side. The profile indicates that the user follows you, and there is a text box labeled "Your private note about this acco..." with a partially visible note. The note reads: "In 2025 a crack commando unit of Polish/Canadian students was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These women promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade and disappeared into the Fediverse underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as posters of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them... maybe you can hire The Fediverse Chicks."](https://cambrian.social/photo/preview/640/1180118 "The image shows a social media profile page with a dark gray background. At the top, there is a colorful flag with horizontal stripes in the order of the rainbow, followed by additional stripes in black, brown, light blue, and pink, representing the transgender pride flag. Below the flag, there is a profile picture of a person with short black hair and a blue shirt. The username \"nicole\" is displayed in white text, followed by the handle \"[@]nicole[@]fediversechick.lol\" in white text. A blue \"Follow\" button is visible on the right side. The profile indicates that the user follows you, and there is a text box labeled \"Your private note about this acco...\" with a partially visible note. The note reads: \"In 2025 a crack commando unit of Polish/Canadian students was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These women promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade and disappeared into the Fediverse underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as posters of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them... maybe you can hire The Fediverse Chicks.\"")
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IS UP!
This is early days. Please check it out and share the link. Let me know what should be added.
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We read Google's privacy policy and checked all the data they use, so you don't have to.
Check out the post from our Reddit
reddit.com/r/internxt/commentsβ¦
Also, join our subreddit if you want to stay updated on new releases and free virual cookies πͺ (The good kind)
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Iβll jump on the bandwagonβ¦ if you have used 23 and Meβ¦ go delete your data before it is sold.
Also, non-medical genetic testing is always a bad idea, for this specific reason. Eventually that company will fail or sell out. Then your firmware config is available to the highest bidder.
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How to delete your 23andMe data
Follow these steps to delete your 23andMe account, but be aware that some personal and genetic data may still be stored by the company.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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something may have been repurposed.
a new form of something like a rickroll?
Susan Crawford is up Wisconsin Supreme Court.
ELON is spending big to try and stop her.
Here are some Susan Crawford Facts 
1. She rejects politicization of the constitution to undermine our basic rights
2. As Assistant AG in Wisconsin, she prosecuted hundreds of tough cases.
3. Leadership positions in multiple state agencies.
4. Elon is spending HUGE to boost the other person, whose name I forget. I'm sure they are terrible, because they are not Susan Crawford.
5. Susan Crawford for Supreme Court. It just makes sense.
Do you have some #SusanCrawfordFacts to share?
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On the US-Canadian border between Detroit and Windsor, people gathered on both sides to protest #Trump today! How dare he attack our neighbors!
instagram.com/reel/DHhG3cdJoAdβ¦
Cat Ladies For America on Instagram: "Where are my Canadian cat-ladies at?!? Know that you are loved here - keep doinβ what you gotta do! GREAT work by Detroiters & Windsor Canadians showing we will not be separated in spirit by the hate mongers. π»π¨π¦ππ»
524 likes, 21 comments - catladies4america on March 22, 2025: "Where are my Canadian cat-ladies at?!? Know that you are loved here - keep doinβ what you gotta do! GREAT work by Detroiters & Windsor Canadians showing we will not be separated in spirβ¦Instagram
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Urggh. Log on to Masto only to be greeted by four nested porn bots following me. Sincerely hope our moderators are alert to that crap and squelch it quickly.
Sooo sick of it from twitter.
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This guy look familiar? I was shocked and lol-ed myself off the bed yesterday to see Sean Spicer now doing an ad for Car Shield. The man who introduced us to Trump 1.0 by telling us the first "Big Lie" that it was the Most Attended Inaugural Ever LIE!
Funniest part is that below his name he is listed "TV Host". Now how bad do you have to be as White House Press Secretary to have it dropped from your resume???
To be picked up by Car Shield who presumably wants us to trust in it?
#EpicFail π
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foss devs: you canβt make me rename my project. i bet you didnβt even ask every disabled person if the nameβs offensive. weβve been using this name for years, you didnβt even consider that maybe it predates ablism. you have no proof itβs named after a slur other than the post where i named the project and stated it was named after a slur and ignored everyone who told me not to
corporations: we renamed our primary software suite again because one of our executives had a cocaine dream
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What the Trump Administration is revealing to well-meaning "liberals" in America is the truth of the project to entirely dismantle the American system of government, upon which the Republican Party has been tirelessly laboring for over 70 years, since 1954's SCOTUS decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
The Democratic Party has been reluctant to break the rules of the American social contract, because they have been fooled into believing that at the heart, Republicans honored it, too. #USpol
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No. tbh, Iβm afraid to. Every time I get another dm thereβs never been any followers. Iβve been assuming, like everyone else it seems, that itβs just a bot somebodyβs turned loose. Iβve just been blocking or muting the account. Or maybe someoneβs running it as a social test of some kind.
Satan offered Jesus the entire world and everything in it.
Remember that the next time you see a "pastor" in a Lamborghini.
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Pouring out a George Foreman's Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine grease tray for the legend. RIP George.
Thoughts and prayers going out to George Edward Foreman's sons: George Edward Foreman, George Edward Foreman, George Edward Foreman and George Edward Foreman.
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"They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring
Even conservatives can't muster pity for a whining billionaire coming for Granny's Social SecuritySalon.com
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So if Section 230 gets repealed (ugh), my understanding is:
1. You can post anything you want on your own website and are personally liable for it.
2. If you host comments (syndicated or otherwise) you could be liable for what's said in those.
So the answer might be an #indieweb style interconnected blogosphere (yes, I said blogosphere) and more peer to peer style interfaces for #activitypub etc.
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I've noticed a very strong tendency for what's left of the blogosphere to go no-comment. I've assumed most of this is some combination of (1) the extreme tediousness of spam filtering in the current bot-infested state of the web, and (2) the tendency to equate "reply" with "guy." I've been vaguely aware that questions of liability might enter into it. I see this as a loss, as my fond memories of the golden age of blogging are memories of the blogosphere as a conversation, not an essay collection. In the latter case, might as well jump on the (imho execrable) "newsletter" bandwagon.
I like IndieWeb's approach to implementing comments as "web mentions" except for one thing. It tends to turn blogging into a conversation among server-side netizens, which strikes me as somewhat elitist.
As for ActivityPub, I see almost a landlord-tenant relationship between instance operators and ordinary users. People try to explain it in terms of adminning being either philanthropy or professionalism, but I'm not buying it. If it's professionalism, then inevitably the Fediverse gets monetized, and everything that (IMO) INHERENTLY comes with that--paywalls, adwalls, DRM, etc. If it's philanthropy, it's givers and takers, and the former drop out one by one until they're all gone.
I'd rather see a culture of self-hosting arise, but I don't see it realistically happening. Spinning up an instance should be as simple as running a program on one's local machine (desktop or mobile). Communication with other instance should happen without something so paywalled as domain names. To be decentralized there should be some kind of bat signal that propagates through the network indicating a peer looking to connect with its peers. Nothing so centralized as a clearinghouse for such connections. But I can think of no way to do this within the current architecture of the Internet.
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In most other countries, yes, this is the way. Itβs not the βhostingβ of the comments, itβs the βpublishingβ of them. So if someone writes βBen Smells Of Eggsβ, and I publish that comment on my site, then you could sue if you felt it was libellous.
Section 230 says that if I automatically publish that, you can do nothing unless you notify me that the eggy message appears, and I then allow it to remain there.
Most other countries say that if I automatically publish that, itβs legally published - and you can take action. So, some form of pre-moderation is a good idea. (Section 230 actually penalises site owners if they pre-moderate - you lose all protection if so).
(This is how the rest of the media works, of course).
Where the server is isnβt material; but where the publisher is, thatβs what matters. One of my sites is legally published in the US and owned by a company there, while my blog is published in Australia. A US company might consider it too hard to chase me here.
Did you know that the CIA came out with a field manual on how to take down an economy and it comes down to enough people working just above the level of being fired. Slow roll, make mistakes, take breaks, and embrace the antithesis of a sense of urgency. If your corporate employer supported Trump, you may be eligible! Gum up their works now!
Edit: Here ya go: cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-β¦
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#Metaplanet, the Japanese company that recently started using the same "borrow as much money as you can to buy bitcoin with debt" approach as #MicroStrategy, has named #EricTrump as the first member of its "Strategic Board of Advisors".
I suspect this increases the odds that the crypto industry will get a bail out if SHTF, though they were already pretty high.
#MSTR #japan #uspol #trump #finance #MichaelSaylor #corruption
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@XenoDangerEvil This is an old photo from a swearing-in ceremony for lawyers in October last year. reddit.com/r/Louisiana/commentβ¦
However, the photo is actually real -- here is another photo from the same ceremony, posted by one of the lawyers, featuring the same typo: instagram.com/jaredj__/p/DBaHzβ¦
Jared Johnson on Instagram: "Officially Official! Today I was sworn in as an attorney, by the Supreme Court of the state of Louisiana. Thank you to my family, friends, professors & classmates, who helped me along this journey! All praise to God"
943 likes, 132 comments - jaredj__ on October 21, 2024: "Officially Official! Today I was sworn in as an attorney, by the Supreme Court of the state of Louisiana.Instagram
I'm back from my latest terrorist activity, i.e. supporting our postal workers at a peaceful protest outside a post office downtown.
There were a lot of postal workers in their union shirts, but also people like me who just showed up in support. We got insane amounts of honking and waving from people in traffic, even a DHL truck! All the postal service workers laughed at that, but as one of them said, "Yeah, we're all in this together."
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...like hers where the locations doesn't make any money.
We know that it's about to get really bad for people in rural locations whether they voted for this or not. She was telling me she just couldn't convince these people not to vote against their own interests, but that they would realize soon how bad it was going to get.
I told everybody there about the #50501movement protests April 5 and said I'd see them at the Capitol then! They were very interested when I showed them the website.
#Turkey detains 37 over 'provocative' social media posts following arrest of #Istanbul mayor
Thousands rally outside Istanbul city hall for 2nd night over mayorβs arrest
by Mehmet Guzel and Susan Frazer, March 20, 2025
ISTANBUL (AP) β "Thousands of people gathered outside Istanbulβs city hall for a second consecutive night on Thursday to rally against the arrest of the cityβs mayor, a prominent contender against President #RecepTayyipErdogan, which many view as a politically driven attempt to eliminate a key rival from the next presidential race.
"Mayor #EkremImamoglu was arrested after a dawn raid on his residence on Wednesday as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links, escalating a crackdown on opposition figures and dissenting voices. Several other prominent figures, including two district mayors, were also detained.
"The detention of a popular opposition leader deepened concerns over #democracy and sparked #protests in Istanbul and elsewhere, despite a four-day ban on #demonstrations in the city and road closures. "
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#TurkeyProtests #Authoritarianism #Resistance #WorldPol #SilencingDissent #Erdogan #ThisIsHowToProtest #TakeToTheStreets
Turkey detains 37 over 'provocative' social media posts following arrest of Istanbul mayor
Turkey's interior minister says authorities have detained 37 people for allegedly sharing βprovocativeβ content on social media following the arrest of Istanbulβs mayor and potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.Mehmet Guzel (AP News)
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@TheDailyBurble It was something one of their braindead cadre uttered once.
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USA TODAY
End-of-Ramadan speech by deputy prime minister decries 'moral corruption.'Michael Winter, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
It's always fun to see a documentary on how to recognize a dictatorship.
And then to see practical examples being announced perfectly matching the documentary in the places you thought were going to be a dictatorship.
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Gov. Hochul is pushing a last-minute subway mask ban in state budget talks
The governor has expressed support for restrictions in protest settings, while many protesters say they need to conceal their identities to avoid retribution.Jimmy Vielkind (Gothamist)
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Turkish Spring or does Erdogan have more lives left?
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#Turkey #Erdogan #EkremImamoglu
Protests in Turkey as Imamoglu, key Erdogan rival, is arrested
As the detention of Istanbul's mayor and the arrest of more than 100 raise alarms over an escalating crackdown on opposition, internet access across Turkey has slowed and protests are banned in Istanbul.Ezgi Akin (AL-Monitor: The Middle EastΚΌs leading independent news source since 2012)
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in reply to Greg Wilson • • •Academic freedom and fascism: A new book on the Italian professors who said NO in 1931
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