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Conversations in our house, an occasional series:
"Why has no one invented Mรถbius strip pasta?"
"I think you might have just solved world hunger."
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donโt use either. use @openstreetmap or @CoMaps. itโs the #antifa thing to do.
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
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Google just goes with whatever is easier for them. If they fear losing money over a name change, they'll adapt. But only for the affected market. Most other countries still have it with its real name
I use @CoMaps as well. My husband does not, and lately, the navigation has been insane. I can only guess Google Maps is experiencing a serious case of artificial "intelligence" decay. @openstreetmap @CoMaps
๐จ LinkedIn runs a silent browser scan on every Chrome user who visits the site. 6,222 extensions. ~405 million users affected. No consent, no disclosure, no mention in their privacy policy.
The scan identifies your sales tools, VPN, ad blocker, job search extensions, and extensions tied to religion, politics, and disability.
The full technical breakdown, legal analysis, and searchable database of every scanned extension:
#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #privacy
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedInโs one billion users visits linkedin.BrowserGate
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I was locked out a year ago for no reason (probably VPN use) and was asked to go through Persona to verify. Never. Privacy Hell squared right there. So now I canโt even delete my account! Tried all communication channels but nopeโฆ locked out. So now my albeit minimal data floats in the evil รฆther. #LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy
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Faulting all Israelis for the many unpardonable sins of Bibi Netanyahu and his government is no different than faulting all Americans for the sins of Donald Trump and his. And Iโm really getting tired of hearing such (often antisemitic) bullshit.
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Not to mention the very large numbers of Jews who don't live in Israel.
I regularly use the Trump example of the contrast between leaders and the country as whole to clarify my criticism of the Israeli government.
It's raining.
We tolerate the rain because it makes living things grow.
There is a payoff for our tolerance.
Keep this in mind when people pervert the meaning of tolerance.
It doesn't mean being nice to fascists.
They won't grow flowers in the spring.
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The more I hear Marco Rubio talk, the more I think what a POS who sold his โLil Marcoโ soul to the ghoul in the White House. Dictator Trump might make him Duke of Cuba.
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I live in Florida. I can attest to the fact that Lil Marco sold his soul long before TFG (or he never had one).
I want to point out that there still is a way Republicans can win in November.
By now, everyone is used to Republicans suddenly reversing positions on every imaginable topic, and that is the secret to victory.
All they have to do is reverse their position on Israel.
Come out as anti-genocide and anti-Israel, and Republicans will be able to defeat all but a handful of Democrats, who will 100% continue to express their support of Israel and genocide, thus pissing off both Democratic and a surprising number of Republican voters.
Democrats have already made it very clear that they would rather lose elections than stop supporting Israel.
Poll after poll shows that Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose genocide and are no longer buying into the little narrative the US mainstream media spent decades selling us on.
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This is also Hasan Piker's hypothesis of precisely what Tucker Carlson's cohort are up to, but you probably know that already.
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@rooftopjaxx
Thanks for reminding me. My life is very busy and I'm not as up on things as I would like.
Thanks for reminding me. My life is very busy and I'm not as up on things as I would like.
Is the democratic party afraid to say 'no oligarchs' instead of 'no kings' bc so many of the donors paying their leadership and consultants are oligarchs?
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I was wondering who provided all that publicity for no kings, when the real protest should have been no oligarchs.
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"Is the democratic party afraid to say 'no oligarchs' instead of 'no kings' bc so many of the donors paying their leadership and consultants are oligarchs?"
Yes.
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#CongressionalRepublicans can stop this motherfucker, Trump, anytime they want to. Itโs been that way since day one of his first term, but they refuse to, because they donโt want to. They arenโt frightened, theyโre complicit.
#DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #CriminalCohorts #OathBreakers #AmericanTraitors #TrumpTools #Iran #IranWar
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They are TRAITORS and terrorists.
And every one of them needs to be dealt with accordingly.
And every one of them needs to be dealt with accordingly.
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Ugh. It's been a day already and it's only 9:30am.
With a layoff at my now former company, lots of us have been impacted, including me. The good news is my calendar is now free and clear.
I have no idea what comes next but if you know of any #InternalCommunications roles in #Massachusetts, I'd really appreciate the heads up ๐
My LinkedIn is: linkedin.com/in/shartlen/.
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It pleases me that far more people have reached a point where they no longer care about establishment condemnation in their struggle against the vast injustice of the world. It is long overdue.
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Avete visto Ben Gvir festeggiare di nuovo la reintroduzione della pena di morte in Israele (che era un paese abolizionista di fatto)? Aveva distribuito dolcetti, ora avrebbe brindato al voto definitivo.
Ceto, Ben Gvir รจ Ben Gvir, che si presentรฒ in parlamento con una spilletta col cappio (a proposito ve li ricordate i nostri leghisti?).
Ben Gvir ne ha di strada da fare per arrivare ad essere all'altezza di un R. Akiva. Mi spingo al punto di dire che IMHO non lo sarร mai.
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They Trump regime still thinks allies (we) donโt understand that the greatest threat to us right now is not Iran, it is the US. But we do. We already know the US canโt be trusted or counted on (see: Ukraine, Greenland, delusional maps of โGreater Americaโ) so why on earth would any NATO country make itself a target of Iran for the US? Pure nonsense.
Everytime a US โpatriotโ missile is lost at sea a baby Canada goose flies around the lake.
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Low Earth orbit is now a very dangerous environment. It didn't have to be, but world governments sold off stewardship of the sky to techbros who don't care if we can actually ever leave the planet because they intend to be princes of what's left of this one.
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Today is rough in this world for so many.
Israel has voted to start exterminating Palestinian prisoners.
I refuse to CW this post.
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And Trump bombed Iran for that POS Netanyahu.
There are no negotiations ongoing or in the future with Iran and if anyone believes that they are delusional.
Jensen Huang of Nvidia
Peter Thiel of Palantir
Mark Zuckerburg of Meta
Larry Ellison of Oracle
Tim Cook of Apple
Jeff Bezos of Amazon
Sundar Pichai of Google
Sam Altman of Open AI
Elon Musk of X(it)
All of these things have contributed and continue to contribute to the downfall of democracy and the murder of innocent people on this planet.
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add a coupla Filipino Box Springs and a barrel of BBQ sauce and you gotta party
youtube.com/watch?v=fQ5CtbigyPโฆ
Tom Waits - "Filipino Box Spring Hog"
Listen to the full album: http://bit.ly/33iL2LM"Filipino Box Spring Hog" by Tom Waits from the album 'Mule Variations'LyricsWell I hung on to Mary's stumpI d...Tom Waits (YouTube)
Must organise online and irl actions to pass costs onto the above and others who can lean on Trump. Would be good to make it as effective as possible but legal and non violent.
meanwhile gamers: Haha that's just Jensen. What do you mean that's abuse?
A haha no that would make me an abuse victim...
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Understand something, the super rich will pull out all the stops they can to make sure that data centers their precious totalitarian surveillance system, gets all the energy and water and resources they need. Data center construction is probably about 10% of what headline numbers you see, but even these numbers are unrealistic as the supply chain falls apart.
Remember that billionaires are an extinction cult they want the world to fall apart
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They're also accelerationists, so they'd rather it falls apart sooner than later.
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They have every kind of moral abomination justifying their accelerationism.
Extinction cult is apt. (Taylor Lorenz's appellation for them)
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And to think, if you were to openly wish bad things on these people equal to what they do to others, there would be grounds to have your post removed.
houseandhome.com/gallery/elegaโฆ
A Tired Fourplex Is Transformed Into an Elegant Single-Family Home
Designers Haley Dermenjian and Lindsay Mens of TOM Design Collective turn a tired Toronto fourplex into an elegant family home.Moyo Lawuyi (House & Home)
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"if visitors are lucky, either Diandra or one of the coupleโs two girls will be playing the grand piano that sits in a bay window. if they are unlucky, visitors themselves will be forced to play it."
The Supreme Court says ISPs arenโt responsible for everything their users do online. That means your access to the internet is less likely to be cut off over accusations alone. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/suprโฆ
Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers
If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that youโor someone in your household or college networkโhas committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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An authoritarian does not to rule but demonstrates who is subordinate.
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The following thought has not been fully thought-through.
*****
I'm Black. I love being Black. I take pride in the achievements of other Black people
But being Black is different from all my other identities: Nigerian, British, woke, F1 fan.
Being Black is not an identity I picked for myself or inherited by birth, it's one that was given to me by people who hate me (and those who look like me). I'm Black today cos 400 years ago someone wanted to enslave my ancestors.
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heavy stuff.
respect for sharing the big thoughts. gives us all a bigger perspective.
So there is a WH app? Go figure that is raises security issues: instagram.com/reel/DWaWZdjDit6โฆ
ibtimes.com/white-house-app-seโฆ
mashable.com/article/white-houโฆ
White House App Settings Grant Full Control Over Your Device: Users Warned of Extreme Risks
The Trump administration's new app demands extensive hardware permissions, raising privacy concerns and sparking calls for deletion.Aiza Moraรฑa (International Business Times)
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if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.
governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.
that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.
Valve: โWe need a credit card on file to prove youโre 18โMe: โMy account is 23 years oldโ
Valve: โThat just proves your account is oldโ
Me: โA credit card just proves you know someone with a credit cardโ
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this is also why we need to gum up the process as much as possible. That's why I'm supportive of things like hacking and releasing age verification documents, not only does this prove there lying when they say they are retaining it but it also gives the I have nothing to hide people another reason to care, Identity Theft.
Analysis: "Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US."
It "risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency & forced imperial retreat".
"Empires decline when their military reach outpaces their political strategy..their economic foundations weaken..
.."& when the people they seek to dominate endure long enough to outlast their overwhelming force."
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Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US
As confrontation with Iran escalates, Washington risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency and forced imperial retreatMiddle East Eye
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Dear UK,
Israel thanks you for supporting their genocide. Good chaps, wot wot!
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As much as you can,
Stop burning oil
It's literally war fuel
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I had to be a downer, but it would be a very big collective mistake to think that even retaking both houses of Congress will fix our MAGA problem. At best they will provide an opportunity for reforms to prevent some conservative excesses in the future.
Unfortunately Liberals are better at identifying long-term problems then they are at solving them. And conversative extremists and their media cohorts have proven extremely resilient. And they never quit. They will take a midterms defeat as โฆ
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a call to action and are likely to come roaring back just two years later. So letโs have no illusions. This will be a multigenerational fight, and the odds are not really in our favor.
I'm worried we're going to see a repeat of the whole SCO vs. IBM mess via AI and uncertainties about how copyright applies to its output. Open source is one of these things that has been safe because the business community actually likes it up to a point and because it's flown under the radar. But I wouldn't put it past the forces of reaction to say actually no, all GPL'd code is really owned by Larry Ellison now and we will enforce that at gunpoint.
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Ah, but of course #github enables LLM access to my repos by default.
There's nothing like consent, eh?
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Please write a new cell phone operating system that excludes data collectors.
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If you must see a Harry Potter story, watch "Weird" (2022) instead.
It has the same actor who played Harry Potter. His character still starts out as a kind of child prodigy. And it's actually funny.
Plus, it has Conan O'Brien as Andy Warhol. That's not exactly magical but it's worth seeing just for the bizarreness of it all.
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@cubicgarden *yes but* most social media platforms are also unhealthy for adults.
Social networks are offline too.
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its not so much the social networks that are the issue, but the platform and it's algorithms. Those drive the real issue.
Blue Bottle (Nestle) has refused to negotiate a contract for over a year. Please join #BBIU and boycott Blue Bottle until Nestle signs a contract. (My daughter is a barista at one of the #Boston stores, so you'd better believe this is personal to me.)
actionnetwork.org/petitions/teโฆ
Tell Blue Bottle: No Contract, No Customers!
For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlรฉ-owned employer.Blue Bottle Independent Union (Action Network)
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We need to organize a system for photographing and sharing surveillance pricing tags. #pubwan
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From a Canadian friend:
"Reopening the Strait has emerged as the main objective of the warโan issue that was caused by the war.
So we are negotiating concessions to fix a thing we broke at the cost of 2 billion a day .... and at a personal cost at the gas pump"
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And I think you know that the energy prices are the tip of the economic iceberg. Oil is broken down into a number of products many of which our feed stocks were agriculture and mineral extraction and processing.
Helium is produced in the Middle East. It is an essential ingredient for chip manufacturing. I hope itโs an important component of even a GPU that go into data centers.
Our @starsandsabers Oz anthology, Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz, is at 36% funded! Today, it's just shy of $1900, and I'd love to see it jump to the next level. Help us get there! indiegogo.com/en/projects/jendโฆ
#books #oz #anthology
#books #oz #anthology
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It's almost impossible to overstate the costs of Trump's recklessness & corruption. The environmental costs, economic costs, legal costs, political costs, moral & ethical costs, opportunity costs. Staggering to think about.
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a good idea for other provinces to emulate thewalrus.ca/manitoba-moves-agโฆ #Canada #Manitoba #NDP
Manitoba Moves to Outlaw Algorithmic Pricingโa First in Canada | The Walrus
The bill would ban using personal data to charge customers different prices for the same goodsCarmine Starnino (The Walrus)
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This is something many economists would also want - the magic of the invisible hand only works* if prices are generally knowable. If everyone has their own price and can't know anyone else's price, you don't have a free market.
*in theory
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According to economics, competitive markets means (1) transparency and (2) low entry and exit costs. The least the economists could do is acknowledge that the reality is far from this and work (by default) from models that do NOT assume competitive markets. One implication of competitive markets is The Law Of One Price. I would think the readily observable state of the economy would rule out any hypothesis that we live under competitive conditions.
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[A story from the internet of yore.]
An American was visiting Australia around the time the Clinton/Lewinski matter was first in the news in the late 90s.
The Usian asked an Aussie what they thought of the whole thing. The Aussie replied:
"I'm glad we got the criminals & you got the puritans."
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@zaire i see it more as a 'how things should be' / 'how things are' type deal; and idealist view on it, and a realist view, and both are kinda correct; i dont think anyone is wrong anyone for having to charge for something in order to make ends meet, (i do if their a multi billion dollar corperation who doesn't need to do shit-) i also dont fault anyone is wrong who pirates or tries to get around that in order to access services or have needs met or whatever ..
i also dont think thats how it should be .. and fuck capitalism .. shits complicated
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