Jesse Duquette says:
"Hey @wsj when youโre the Mouth of Dumb Sauron youโre bound to need make a retraction or two"
#trans #lgbt #charlieKirk
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- I did this (68%, 106 votes)
- I might actually do this (9%, 15 votes)
- I would do this if it applied (18%, 28 votes)
- I would probably stay (reply if you like why) (0%, 1 vote)
- it would have to be egregious (1%, 3 votes)
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Privacy isn't just about protecting
your own data, it's also about you protecting the data of others.
We all have a responsibility to
protect each other. Do not neglect this, or minimize the impact you may have.
Always ask for consent before sharing the data of others. Never assume.
This is a responsibility we all have towards each other: privacyguides.org/articles/202โฆ
#Privacy #Safety #Security #Trust #Consent
Privacy is Also Protecting the Data of Others
In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you.Privacy Guides
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My incompetence at protection is my only defence
You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus
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You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus
This is a reupload of a video originally created by igiulamam, which was taken down on a spurious claim. Lyrics are in the description and at least two pla...YouTube
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If you really want to โavengeโ Charlie Kirkโs murder, then demand your Republican members of the House and Senate vote to release the full Epstein files.
Take a deep breath. Think. Donโt be played.
On this left and right agree with Charlie Kirk.
Release the files. All of them.
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Whimsical Lion in Jungle Setting.
Wall Art Prints: matthias-hauser.pixels.com/feaโฆ ๐งก
#lion #animals #wildlife #cute #funny #humor #art #mastoart #fediart #wallart #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters
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Was looking for a less stimulating launcher on F-droid (you know, cause I feel like the swiping and moving and friendly bubbly images are very satisfying which is unfortunately not very helpful for someone who is easily distracted)
And I found this and honestly the screencaps convinced me. 100% this was made specifically for me
Sadly doesn't seem to come with the background images included, now there's room for improvement
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New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care
Link: governor.state.nm.us/2025/09/0โฆ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โฆ
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You: โthere is no such thing as a perfect science lectureโ
Dr Anna Watts, U Amsterdam: โhold my jointโ
youtu.be/I12SQ7YOebY?si=yomama
Anna Watts - Neutron Stars: The Supranuclear Density Zombies of the Cosmos (March 26, 2025)
In this Presidential Lecture, Anna Watts will explore how astrophysicists are starting to make sense of these weird and wonderful stars using everything from...YouTube
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I'm afraid that comment went right over my head.
Edit: Oh, the quantum chromodynamic smileys in the thumbnail.
Yes, defending Angel Reese is personal.
Because defending Angel Reese isnโt just about the game. Itโs about what it feels like, deep in my body, every time a Black woman is targeted for speaking up, asking for more, or simply refusing to shrink.
Due to my lived experiences, the โmaybe thereโs more to the storyโ and โbut what ifโฆโ comments never land as neutral, as reflective.
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Thatโs why the racism swirling around Angel Reese, and so many Black women athletes, doesnโt just make it hard to enjoy womenโs sportsโฆit makes it triggering, exhausting, and too often, harmful. Whatโs supposed to be joyful, light-hearted, and fun, gets tangled up with survival.
This is the everyday reality of being a Black woman.
Even when we shine, even when we excel, the spotlight comes with attacks.
And every โbutโ feels like another reminder that the world doesnโt rush to protect usโฆin fact, itโs often the opposite.
Leaving us to defend each other.
So yes, I come to her defense hard. Because when I defend her, Iโm also defending myself.
#ProtectBlackWomen #AngelReese #ProfessionalViolence #KimCrayton #WNBA #ProfitWithoutOppression #RacismInSports #BlackWomenDeserveBetter #ListenToBlackWomen #PWOCommunity
Complying with #Trumpadministrationโs attack on #DEI could get #employers into #legaltrouble
theconversation.com/complying-โฆ
Complying with Trump administrationโs attack on DEI could get employers into legal trouble
There are many legal ways for employers to advance their commitment to equal opportunity without discriminating against anyone.The Conversation
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#USpol #DemocracyVersusRepublic
a long but readable read โ was the US constitution really designed for democracy, or designed to protect a powerful few? Ari Berman May 2024 in Mother Jones;
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โFrom childhood, we are taught to venerate the Constitution as a civic religion, but the truth is that Americaโs democratic experiment has been defined since the nationโs founding by a central tension over whom the government should favor. The United States has historically been a laboratory for both oligarchy and genuine democracy. And to grasp the present-day fight, one must understand the long-standing clash between competing notions of majority rule and minority rightsโฆ
and
โBut as the United States has democratized in the centuries since, extending the vote and many other rights to formerly disenfranchised communities, the antidemocratic features built into the Constitution have become even more pronounced, to the point that they are threatening the survival of representative government in America.
The timing of our modern retreat from democracy is no coincidence. The nation is now roughly 20 years away from a future in which white people will no longer be the majorityโฆ
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โThis imbalance is growing more lopsided: By 2040, roughly 70 percent of Americans will live in 15 states with 30 senators, while the other 30 percentโwho are whiter, older, and more rural than the country as a wholeโwill elect 70 senatorsโฆ
motherjones.com/politics/2024/โฆ
Minority rule is threatening American democracy like never before
The Founding Fathers planted a bomb in the Constitution. Donald Trump lit the fuse.Mother Jones
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I just read about a celebrity who is leaving the united states to move to the UK because the u.s. is such a shitshow.
Um...
I guess you haven't read much news about current events in the UK, huh?
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When you shower, do you have a certain order of things you go through, or do you just wing it?
- Order (70%, 17 votes)
- Wing it (16%, 4 votes)
- Depends (12%, 3 votes)
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From Libraries to Schools: Why Organizations Should Install Privacy Badger
โโIn an era of pervasive online surveillance, organizations have an important role to play in protecting their communitiesโ privacy.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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As long as weโre in the โSeptember Surgeโ (that trend where thereโs a noticeable uptick in job vacancies and hiring around September and October, when companies ramp up for year-end and the upcoming year), you might as well also ask โWhat DONโT I want in a new job?โ
globalnerdy.com/2025/09/06/whaโฆ
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haha thatโs me!
The talk, in context: popagandhi.com/posts/my-talk-aโฆ
Warner Brothers suing Midjourney over people being able to create infringing Batman and Scooby-Doo illustrations is hilarious, because fuck Midjourney and the other LLM landlords, but also WB and others were SO excited to use LLMs to replace creatives everywhere with digital slaves and now itโs biting them in the ass.
Sorry, folks, you helped the genie out of the bottle, and while you might be able to force LLM service providers to forbid certain terms, you canโt stop anyone with local models and LoRAs from generating an endless stream of โinfringingโ depictions of your โpropertyโ.
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ICYMI: I wrote a 3,500+ word deep-dive guide on how to read data breach notices. By knowing what to look out for (and what to ignore) and understanding what these notices actually mean, you can take meaningful actions to protect yourself and others.
For premium subscribers โค๏ธ
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How to read and understand a data breach notice
Understanding the contents of a data breach notice can help you take measured, reasonable action to protect yourself and others following a cybersecurity incident.Zack Whittaker (~this week in security~)
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This guide is one of the most detailed posts I've written in a while, using real-world examples of data breaches (coupled with my two decades of journalism experience!) to help you to read between the lines of even the most barebones data breach notices, so that you know what steps to take next.
Please share!
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How to read and understand a data breach notice
Understanding the contents of a data breach notice can help you take measured, reasonable action to protect yourself and others following a cybersecurity incident.Zack Whittaker (~this week in security~)
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Dear Mastodon, I am bisexual.
This is my coming out toot.
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I think it would be interesting if Senator Mitch McConnell, who suffered an infection of polio as a child would be called as a witness to any congressional meeting public meeting with RFK jr.
It should not be lost on any of us that Mitch made todayโs crisis second Trump administration possible all to keep power for the GOP.
He was willing through his choices to release polio upon the world again all to keep political power
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This week #StreetRoots, #JeremiahHayden did an awesome article that I have never seen anyone else do.
Hate crime against #homeless people and then i wrote this: beamship.mpaq.org/@bob/1151421โฆ
Downtown Portland stabbing continues pattern of anti-homeless violence
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The Silence Continues (Just Bob 538 @ venmo.com/code?user_id=3063551โฆ) #Portland #PDXThe silence is deafning. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.
(Amendment I) Sorry, you don't have the right to assemble in public space even in protest because your homeless.
(Amendment IV) Sorry, you don't have the right to be served a search warrant when we steal your only way to stay warm and dry.
(Amendment VIII) Sorry, your under arrest for trying to survive in public spaces in the middle of winter/heatwave after the city/state/federal has taken everything from you and there is absolutely no place to go to get out of the weather.
A short time ago, #Trump decided that 770,000 people have no US Constitution rights when he declared it #Illegal2BHomeless across the entire country. Not only do we now have to be on the lookout for city cops, shariffs, state cops, National Guards that also forgot the oath we say when joining the US Military, we have to be looking for every day haters who won't hesitate to kill us for simply not having paid for place to live.
But the silence continues.
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Been saying #Portland #PDX will be targeted and guess what:
Portland has now made the Trump hit list:
beamship.mpaq.org/@sr_rss/1151โฆ
Trump, misled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, threatens to send troops to Portland โ livetheguardian.com/us-news/live/2โฆ
President also says US must be 152;very careful in removing mandates for 152;vaccines that are so amazing
#TheGuardian #News VIA #MPAQ #English #USA September 5, 2025
Trump, misled by video of 2020 protests shown on Fox, threatens to send troops to Portland โ live
President also says US must be โvery carefulโ in removing mandates for โvaccines that are so amazingโTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
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our "plan to withstand global shocks" is to abandon our plan to mitigate carbon emissions.
we are not smart people
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The plans of zillionaires. They seem fine with murdering billions of people as long as they get to have their private child rape islands. If we want to have any other future, we're going to have to go remove them as well as go around them.
That is, get rid of systemic issues favoring money in politics so we can ditch fossil fuels as a society, in addition to individuals doing their own small part by adopting new habits. Riding bikes is nice, but it's only about 1% of the blocking issue.
@bweller this is regarding Mark Carney's plan to scrap incentive programs for EV sales in Canada, to help protect the job market in the Canadian auto sector (by curbing the demand for Teslas, Volts, etc)
There is some truth that we don't have the infrastructure or experience to build the EV components that are in demand, but it still seems like the very much wrong way to address the problem, especially since leaning into the ICE auto sector stuff is still leaning too much on an unstable partner
Man in the Middle attack
Apparently the man in the middle has two faces, one of whom looks like you and one of whom looks like someone else. Guess which side faces you...
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Finally, a reason to use Bing Maps.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0โฆ
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Good grief; I knew Audible/Amazon were predatory but Iโm surprised this is legal.
Short version - if an author isnโt exclusive to Audible, then Audible will do their best to take the authorโs royalties and give them to people who are exclusive.
Exclusive including โnot available in librariesโ.
Audible continues to be EVIL
Audible's new proposed royalty structure is a slap in the face to authors, readers who care about them, and exactly opposite of what they promised Brandon Sa...YouTube
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I agree, but to split it up we first divide up jeff bezos with an axe and then each seperate part gets a chunk of amazon to live on.
Yeah, I cancelled my decades long #Audible subscription two months ago, used #LIBATION to download my library to my computer and I went to #LibroFM because as Cory Doctorow points out, they don't do DRM and you can support a local book shop with your purchases from them:
Libation:
Libro.fm (this is my referral link which earns me free books but you can just go to libro.fm if you like) :
libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm4โฆ
I'm very pleased with the move
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in reply to Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS! • • •Oh hey, another anti-transphobia post is doing some sort of numbers, so please everybody be aware of @trans_rescue
They are an NGO based in the Netherlands and they help trans people leave unsafe countries around the globe. Sadly, that now includes the US. Please give them follows and boosts and, if possible, donations. They can always use money to save trans lives.
transrescue.org/donations/bis-โฆ
Donate to Trans Rescue - Trans Rescue
Stichting Trans Rescue FoundationMary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
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Oh, and hey, HRC is calling for us all to send well-deserved nastygrams to the Wall Street Journal over their "reporting" on the Charlie Kirk shooting that endangered trans lives for NO reason. Mine is on the way.
act.hrc.org/page/177823/actionโฆ
Demand a Retraction and Apology from the Wall Street Journal for Erroneous Reporting
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