"We need to go beyond Signal" β How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps | TechRadar
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> Signal's privacy and security are great, but being a centralized app makes it vulnerable
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Someone said something that made me think about Eco's indicators of fascism, and if they're the indicators, what is the essence of it?
I think it's the willingness to openly and with the intent of mobilising support, throw a minority under the bus. In advanced fascism that means - well, we've all seen it.
There are many other features of what we call fascism. Ultranationalism, dictatorship open or otherwise, regimented economy, miltarised/hierarchical society etc. But I think these are features. I think the essence is best summed up by the dehumanisation of humans and that's best exemplified by the scapegoating eugenics that is always - always - the outcome of such thinking.
So, I think Starmer is a fascist in spite of him not wearing swastikas or invading Poland or having a comical little moustache. I leave it up to the reader to decide on what grounds, given what I've said.
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He's definitely a fascist.
There's a saying that goes along the lines of:
"Fascism doesn't arrive in jackboots. It arrives in a Savile Row suit and an educated posh accent. "
My floor cleaner suddenly switched exclusively to yelling at me at 110% volume in FRENCH and I'm prevented from doing anything about it because AWS is down. π
It's my fault for buying an app-connected floor cleaner, I'll admit. I enshittified my own home. @pluralistic warned me.
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At first the Americans came for the Americans, and I did nothing, but encourage the fall of capitalism a bit and share anti fascist things, because I wasn't an American or in America.
Then they came for the immigrants, and I did the same, because I'm in Ireland. So then I decided I'd probably not visit America for probably at least a decade or two...
And that's basically how we are dealing with your mad mess over here, most of us in Europe are just watching your shitshow and thinking, 'Nope'.
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Republicans need Jesus badly. They are so consumed with violating the ninth commandment they havenβt noticed itβs their own assassinating and attacking people. Donald Trumpβs AI video is a case in point. That was the hate America rally they were talking about.
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One can always rub the hypocrisy in their face though. The people killing conservatives or other conservatives.
Kirk was assassinated by a Mormon. And on the same day, there were two or three mass shootings, perpetrated by young conservative men raised in religious households, surrounded by guns who had been sucked into the darkest corners of the Internet.
So, the 4Chan Offcom thing is all funny, but this is how UK OSA _exactly as was universally predicted by experts_ (or literally anyone with the faintest understanding of business and the internet) has erected an enormous regulatory barrier against small and medium sites, while creating nothing but a unlikely future operating expense for huge incumbents.
All while harming speech. Not edgy βfree speechβ. Literally _any_ speech, from the most prosaic neighbourβsβ disputes. But also vital beneficial speech like kids hoping to understand their sexuality, or neurodiversity, or menstrual cycle. Possibly life saving speech. Because small sites providing forums for that have closed, or added age verification by ID requirements.
+ reducing online safety, because of greater chance of ID theft or tracking, or blackmail.
The only thing itβs done to help kids is teach them to use VPNs π€·ββοΈ
Stunningly poor policy, developed by the Tories, **implemented by Labour**.
So all in all, Iβm not finding it very funny.
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Right-wing techqueen launches 'moral crusade' to connect with 'MAGA land': report
#CriticsOfAmericanDynamism #PatrioticInvesting #HardTechRenewal #ChristianNationalismTech #SpiritualCrisisInvesting
Right-wing techqueen launches 'moral crusade' to connect with 'MAGA land': report
Katherine Boyle β a close ally of Vice President J.D. Vance β has reportedly reframed Silicon Valleyβs mission by directing ventureβcapital into companies aligned with U.S. national interest in order to spur what MAGA sees as American renewal.Ailia Zehra (Alternet.org)
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Yesterday I asked everybody who went to #NoKings in the US: did you see any counter protesters? All the responses, even from towns in red areas, said the same: very few or none at all. What a far cry from February.
Trump, Nosferatu, and the others who are true believers in Nazism have no shame, but can be expected to lash out in fear.
Media bootlickers and assorted grifters will be looking for the exits. Expect a shift in coverage, not out of principle but more naked selfishness.
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A third of the country might still answer on surveys that they support Trump, but yesterday proved that many of them are just doing so out of fear of their own communities. I come from some very fashy places, both the MAGA base in the country and the 1%er Nazis. I know how mortally afraid everybody is of everybody else in those communities. People are terrified of their image being compromised, because there's so little empathy.
If they really felt the same as ever, where were they yesterday?
Counter-protestors showed up back in June. But we saw not a single one yesterday.
IN OKLAHOMA CITY.
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Alright folks! I am casting more local community building lines!
1) I've had to give up driving because of meds induced cataracts, looking for friends to run errands with: Canadian Tire, Pet Store... Plus just lil outings to local parks n such.
2) I have a signal Group for #Guelph and area locals, chit chatty neighbourhood resources and fun. Boop me if you'd like to join (KW & Cambridge areas welcome too)
3) am still looking to hire spoonie help:
disabled.social/@vlrny/1153783β¦
π Appreciated.
The spoonie assistant I had lined up fell through. So looking again to hire someone with executive function and a driver's license to help me:β’ Move - pack, organize and decide set up new place.
β’ Grocery shop, food prep, life management at home.
β’ Accompanying on appts so I don't get lost and confused when mentally spent.
β’ Life admin - filling out forms, phone calls (visual/auditory processing issues)$20/hr 5-10hr/wk #Guelph
Boosts appreciated.
Need help asap.
#fediHire
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#Wikipedia Says #AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors and Volunteers https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/AnnaAnthro (Mastodon)
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There's that somewhat unreliable, but better than nothing, technique of using a standard search engine and filtering results so that you only see things from before 2020.
Not perfect but it's a tool.
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good night
sleep tight
take your meds
fuck the feds
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Let the
Alchemy
Of your art
Transmute
Pain into
Gold.
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looking forward to see people justifying the US overthrowing Venezuela's government because its undemocratic
our military is for giving other countries new leaders who are breaking international law*
(* Terms and conditions may apply)
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Sam Altman: I need a trillion dollars.
Investors: Hereβs a trillion dollars.
Sam Altman: Now, hear me out: Wanking.
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does anyone know of a real license that's
1. made by lawyers not a version 0 draft
and
2. Just as noxious to shareholders as agpl3 or even more anti-profit
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I don't know why a firmware updater for headphones
- is a phone only app
- has a mandatory EULA
- can be installed automatically by the os just by by device signatures
EU pls fix
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My wife and I were heading to Chicago this weekend because some old friends are getting married, but no longer. There were two issues, the first being that ICE is running snatch and grabs in our old neighborhood where we were planning to stay with some other friends. There is no way I could stay out of it if I saw it happening, and we decided it didn't make sense for me to go and get arrested in Illinois. Just another layer of headache. The second was that we wouldn't have been able to attend official NO KINGS marches because of travel and scheduling around a gig in Somerset, WI.
So instead, we are heading to Madison to stay Friday night and Saturday with her brother's family and do NO KINGS at the Wisconsin capitol while getting to visit a bit with part of the family that's going through some stuff right now.
I am pissed off that these SOBs are making me change plans. I detest fascists, and as soon as they come to Minneapolis (and they will) I'll be heading down. See you in the holding cells, friends.
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By this point Google has effectively become a spam haven. If they weren't "too big to fail", their IP ranges would already have been blocked by SpamCop, Spamhaus, and all other anti-spam solutions.
In my case, they are the #1 source of spam.
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It's rare to get unanimous agreement across all political perspectives in media, but Pete Hegseth's regulations on Pentagon journalists were rejected by literally all reporters covering defense, even those from Republican outlets.
His latest version is just as censorial. poynter.org/reporting-editing/β¦
The Pentagon revised its media restrictions. Theyβre just as bad for press freedom, experts say. - Poynter
βRather than this overt censoring of journalists β¦ it has morphed into this effort to intimidate both journalists and government employeesβAngela Fu (The Poynter Institute)
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#TrumpCrimeSyndicate #Nazis #AmericanNazis #MAGANazis #autocracy #oligarchy #kleptocracy #kakistocracy #corruption #crime #racism #bigotry #fascism
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Thereβs nothing wrong with US military troops in line in food banks because they are not being paid.
If they never get backpay, which is probably likely given the nature of whoβs running the country, we will know for certain that they have no fucking clue how bad this is. Thereβs a reason why tyrant keep the military loyal.
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Paid Sick Leave Is Under Attack in Some Republican States
Republican-controlled legislatures have rolled back state level sick leave policies, leaving gaps in access amid the party's attacks on health care.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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