"Check out as guest" should be an option on every digital store front.
Creating an account should not be required.
Providing your phone number should not be required.
2FA should not be required.
Using the app should not be required.
Using Chrome should not be required.
The site should work with screen readers and magnifiers.
It should be low bandwidth and tolerate high latency.
The vendors contact information and address should always be clearly and clearly presented, with a real email address and direct-to-human phone number.
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Ryanair’s CFAA Claim Against Booking.com Has Nothing To Do with Actual Hacking
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is supposed to be about attacks on computer systems. It is not, as a federal district court suggested in Ryanair v. Booking.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Audition employers. Thank them for wishing to work with you. Smile reassuringly, praise their efforts.
Very few of them will be successful. Let them know you care.
Doesn’t it seem that, if the “tragedy of the commons” were true, Patreon couldn’t exist?
Ostrom’s Law¹ goes something like “if it happens in practice, it ought to be possible in theory.” (1/2)
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Most of human existence land was communal tenancy. I know, for instance, that Russian peasants operated as communes and Italian commune purchased (from lords) and managed land. I know firsthand. This is true in smaller islands off of Fiji because I was talking to a a local who mentioned that his chief granted him the plot of land he lived on and farmed.
Russian peasant communes for instance re allocated land to their members in accordance to their family size.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @lori There are lots of interesting anecdotes/examples in these two books:
Ostrom’s /Governing the Commons/ goodreads.com/book/show/104842…
Nordman’s /The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom/ goodreads.com/book/show/558599…
The Nordman book is more readable.
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions fo…
Congratulations to Elinor Ostrom, Co-Winner of The Sver…Goodreads
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@lori Elinor Ostrom spent much of her life dissecting existing commons to see how they worked (and, in some cases, why they failed). She had nine design principles for successful commons, summarized here: podcast.oddly-influenced.dev/e… (scroll down)
I took a stab at your examples of failures, but didn’t know enough to see whether/how the principles don’t apply.
Oddly Influenced | /Governing the Commons/, part 1: setting the scene
This is the first of two or three episodes that draw on Elinor Ostrom’s 1990 book, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, and Erik Nordman’s 2021 book, The Unco...Oddly Influenced
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To answer Joan Osborne's question, I can tell you that Alzheimer's would be cured and there'd be no more children with cancer.
Or else He'd no longer be one of us on an urgent and maybe even painful basis.
"Patrick, you'd torture God if God became human?"
Yeah, I'd torture you to death too if you could cure every childhood disease and decided not to cure every childhood disease.
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Previous generations of chatGPT are providing the data for the next generation now.
What could possibly go wrong? I think subconsciously guys like Sam Altman are describing exactly what could be wrong about it.
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it could've used the skynet example, but it has been done to death, resurrected, and done back down to death so many times it would be redundant.
8/8/2025 Statement from UC President Milliken in response to the Department of Justice's proposed $1 billion settlement from UCLA:
University of California just received a document from the DOJ and is reviewing it…As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university ...
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Statement from UC President Milliken in response to the Department of Justice's proposed $1 billion settlement from UCLA
Statement from President Milliken, Friday, August 8, 2025.University of California
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Dark comedy incoming:
Buy a man a fish, he eats for a day. Buy a man a poisoned fish, he eats for the rest of his life. 😳😝
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Remember, to the Fascists all porn is deviancy (except the porn on their devices)
If you're enabling this "for the children" you probably voted for Brexit or Trump.
Don't drag us into your sexual dysfunctions you Peado enabling creeps
, you got tricked again and once again better people than you have to suffer
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You got Yvette Cooper calling you a Terrorist for being upset at the Genocide and you've got Peter Kyle calling you a Child Rapist for not being down with the Online Safety Act......and people think Labour are going to turn this around before the next election?
Do you Brits have any self worth at all? Is this what we deserve?
#UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #YvetteCooper #PeterKyle #Labour #Genocide #OnlineSafetyAct
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I don't think that's what Cooper or Kyle said, at all.
But that sure is what Farage and the far right are saying they said.
@TCatInReality Labour are not on our side, and I will not be silent about their lies just because "Nigel Farage"
This is Mastodon, we can talk openly here. We don't have to watch our mouths in case we give the Fash ideas, they're not on here!
Going online in #Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous
By DASHA LITVINOVA
Updated 7:34 AM EDT, August 5, 2025
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — "YouTube videos that won’t load. A visit to a popular independent media website that produces only a blank page. Cellphone internet connections that are down for hours or days.
"Going online in Russia can be frustrating, complicated and even dangerous.
"It’s not a network glitch but a deliberate, multipronged and long-term effort by authorities to bring the internet under the #Kremlin’s full control. Authorities adopted #RestrictiveLaws and banned #websites and #platforms that won’t comply. Technology has been perfected to monitor and manipulate online traffic.
"While it’s still possible to circumvent restrictions by using virtual private network apps, those are routinely blocked, too.
"Authorities further restricted internet access this summer with widespread shutdowns of cellphone internet connections and adopting a law punishing users for searching for content they deem illicit.
"They also are threatening to go after the popular WhatsApp platform while rolling out a new “national” messaging app that’s widely expected to be heavily monitored.
"President #VladimirPutin urged the government to 'stifle' foreign internet services and ordered officials to assemble a list of platforms from 'unfriendly' states that should be restricted."
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#Censorship #Fascism #PutinSucks #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #RussiaFirst
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Semi-related: I refrained from boosting this last night due to a problematic downplaying of the fascist character of Azov Brigade, but this is otherwise a good article on how the noose is tightening in Russia for Pagans, religious minorities, and LGBTQ folk, all in the name of a "war on Satanism"
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Russian Supreme Court Bans Imaginary “International Satanist Movement,” Endangering Other Communities
Russian leaders continue using fictional threats to justify repression. With “Satanists” now banned and LGBTQ+ groups labeled extremists, religious minorities—including Pagans—face growing risks under an increasingly Orthodox-aligned regime.Manny Moreno (The Wild Hunt)
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I never did and never will give a hoot about SEO. I do strive for consistent structure for myself and anyone who wanders into my public internal monologue.
I keep old content around for historical markers. The historical blunders also have value. I add an aside, usually with annotation date, warning folks that the sample code might reformat your hard drive or start a land war in Asia if run as-is.
toot.wales/@HughWRoberts/11497…
Did you know that keeping old, outdated blog posts can damage your blog?What do you do with your old blog posts?
Join the discussion.
#MondayBlogs #Blogging #BloggingTips
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When Trump pardons the pedophile child sex trafficking monster Ghislaine Maxwell, his little Johnson will say on TV “Oh you know the president has the authority to pardon anyone”.
At that point every reporter should yell out “he pardoned a pedophile!”
The GOP is fine with Trump pardoning pedophiles!
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Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Discoverability is not morally neutral
I tend to learn about books/TV series/other creative works because I've seen it around, people are talking about it, it seems vaguely intere...impstrump.blogspot.com
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My thought of the day:
As a trans person, I'm pretty clear on the fact that most of the populace doesn't care about or support my rights or my safety.
Consequently, I've stopped caring about most people.
You can't bother to be there for me.
And I can't bother to be there for you.
I won't be your patsy.
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I just had a follow request from some guy who wants to "discuss issues" with people.
His current posts and replies to people consist of:
"hello bro I'm new here"
"hello bro"
"hello bro can we discuss more about the government"
🙄 Yeah, I'm going to have to block you, bro.
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Without explanation, YouTube has removed my interview about Israel's genocide on Palestine with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu. We are appealing.
Here's the full interview on my human rights newsletter. Share widely: qasimrashid.com/p/youtube-remo…
YouTube Removed My Interview on Gaza With A Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer
Watch the full interview with globally renowned Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu — a former lead negotiator between Palestine and IsraelQasim Rashid, Esq. (Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid)
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What is PeerTube? | JoinPeerTube
A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, PeerTube is the decentralized free software alternative to videos platforms developed by FramasoftJoinPeerTube
Non-citizens aren't on the rolls anyway. Voters are so vetted, you have no idea.
This is performative bullshit, Brian Posthumus R-BigBaby
"Either way, Common Cause is asking Michiganders to decline to sign both petitions when they encounter signature gatherers through the rest of summer and into the fall.
The vast majority of Michiganders believe our elections are fair, but an extreme minority wants to take away our right to vote and is misleading us on their targets. It’s a trap. Don’t fall for it,” Quentin Turner, executive director of Common Cause Michigan, said in a statement. “Both of these poorly named ballot initiatives would take away U.S. citizen’s right to vote unless they slogged through tons of costly red tape. This is not abstract; we know from our members directly that some would lose their right to vote as U.S. citizens.”
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The NGO holding Israeli soldiers to account | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera
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"The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage as evidence for war crimes investigations. Al Jazeera’s Hind Touissate spoke to its founder to explain how dozens of complaints have been filed in more than 10 countries, targeting Israeli military personnel."
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—Rick Reilly, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
#trump #golf
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La fine delle custom ROM e dei bootloader sbloccati in Europa. Samsung la prima, gli altri seguiranno
Una Direttiva europea che entra in vigore il 1 agosto del 2025 estende agli smartphone i requisiti di sicurezza degli apparecchi radio. I produttori sono responsabili di eventuali modifiche aftermarket che possano in qualche modo invalidare le certificazioni. La soluzione più facile è bloccare il bootloader.
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Frequently, Trump world proclaims its goals and then gaslights to pretend it never said or meant any such things. Later, the bad stuff happens, as planned.
Sometimes, Big Journalism takes note of the outrageous plans. But media ALWAYS amplify the gaslighting, helping to disarm righteous opposition.
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Am embarrassed to be a Brown alum here
the "voluntary" figleaf makes this _worse_ not better
To quote @nberlat.bsky.social
fight, you fucking fuckers, fight.
*this is supposed to be what an endowment is for*; it's a rainy day fund, and it's fucking *flooding*
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... they'll know as soon as my alumni donations to the school dry up
I am planning a 100% reduction, which is particularly easy because it was already at zero
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.How to Leave Substack.
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Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.
#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art
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Though there's less advantage to me specifically in this respect, since the bank in question is about a block away. Anything that takes out my house is also likely to ruin the bank's day, as well.
Round up the anti-vaxers.
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“However, their MAGA base, the forces they legitimized, amplified, normalized, and promoted, is in open revolt because they haven’t completely banned COVID vaccines. The rage and conspiracies Drs. Prasad and Makary nurtured for the past 4 years are now being directed back at them. It turns out when you tell people to stop trusting the medical establishment, they stop trusting the medical establishment.”sciencebasedmedicine.org/trap/
With Laura Loomer on One Side and Dr. Paul Offit on the Other, Our FDA Leaders are Caught in a Trap of Their Own Making | Science-Based Medicine
After years of bashing the medical establishment, Drs. Vinay Prasad and Marty Makary are stuck in a trap. Any attempt to escape only tightens its grip.Jonathan Howard (Science-Based Medicine)
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