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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.

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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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The Supreme Court says ISPs aren’t 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/supr…

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 you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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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.

#blackmastodon

#blackmastodon

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So there is a WH app? Go figure that is raises security issues: instagram.com/reel/DWaWZdjDit6…

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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 Moraña (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.

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Valve: “We need a credit card on file to prove you’re 18”

Me: “My account is 23 years old”

Valve: “That just proves your account is old”

Me: “A credit card just proves you know someone with a credit card”


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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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#USPol #EUPol #Iran #Suez .

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 retreat
Middle East Eye
#eupol #uspol #iran #suez

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Dear UK,

Israel thanks you for supporting their genocide. Good chaps, wot wot!

micchiato 🎋

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“#London Met #Police arrested the Palestinian British doctor Rahma Al-Adwan for the fifth time over #socialmedia posts criticizing #Israel.”
#palestine #warcrimes #genocide #UK

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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 …

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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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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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fullcredits

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If the United States is insolvent, simply apply all the excess billions in banks to the debt. Seize the assets of the ultra-wealthy, and leave them with enough to repatriate to their foreign homelands.

If they can bulldoze entire neighborhoods for freeways and stadiums, and not give a damn about where those people will go, they can certainly take what is necessary to sustain the finances of our nation.

*sounds of flapping flags and adding machines*

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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.)

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#labor

Tell Blue Bottle: No Contract, No Customers!

For a year Blue Bottle baristas have been negotiating for a strong contract with our Nestlé-owned employer.
Blue Bottle Independent Union (Action Network)
#boston #labor #bbiu

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From a Canadian friend:

"Reopening the Strait has emerged as the main objective of the war—an 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 it’s an important component of even a GPU that go into data centers.

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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/jend…
#books #oz #anthology
#books #anthology #oz @Stars and Sabers Publishing

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a good idea for other provinces to emulate thewalrus.ca/manitoba-moves-ag… #Canada #Manitoba #NDP

Manitoba Moves to Outlaw Algorithmic Pricing—a First in Canada | The Walrus

The bill would ban using personal data to charge customers different prices for the same goods
Carmine Starnino (The Walrus)
#canada #ndp #manitoba

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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."

#US #Australia #Humor #Funny

#us #australia #humor #funny

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Elon in America, England and Germany. This fucker, Sterin, in France.

All the billionaires need to go. Nationalize all wealth of 1 billion and more.

#NoBillionaires

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#NoBillionaires

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Wow. Respect.

"65 years after the assassination of Congo's 1st PM, a Belgian diplomat will face trial"

"More than six decades after Congo's beloved first prime minister Patrice Lumumba was abducted and murdered by Belgium-backed secessionists, a former Belgian diplomat will stand trial for war crimes in connection to the assassination."

I hope the current US gov cosplayers are paying attention. Justice will be waiting.

This man is 93.

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I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
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Thommy

I hate how tech conferences act like the only thing that exists are big companies with travel budgets. Even when they have token "indie" or small business discounts, everything else about it is designed around excluding those they know they can't extract much money from. And frankly, it makes the conferences way less interesting! It's of course their loss if you're not doing a talk for them.
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@thomasjwebb I know! Same with academic conferences, who have zero acknowledgment of applied researchers and assume every one of us has some limitless corporate budget, when in fact so many applied researchers are fighting constant uphill battles to advocate on behalf of the people whose data they work on, and could be a really valuable voice to inform otherwise detached academics
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There has never been a time when it wasn’t fully within the capacity of Congressional Republicans to join their Democratic counterparts to have Trump impeached and removed from office. Never.

#DonaldTrump is the rogue POTUS #WeThePeople STILL have because he’s the rogue POTUS racist, bigoted, corrupt Republicans STILL want.
#TrumpRepublicansAreNazis #DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #fascism

#donaldtrump #fascism #AmericanHitler #wethepeople #trumprepublicansarenazis
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When a politician uses the 'household budget' analogy you know they're taking us for fools.
Polanski doesn't insult the Voter's intelligence.

#ZackPolanski #Polanski #Green #GreenParty #GPEW #UKPol #UKPolitics

#ukpolitics #ukpol #green #greenparty #ZackPolanski #gpew #polanski

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Chi finanzia Bluesky? E perché finanziare un'iniziativa in perdita? E soprattutto, può esserci decentralizzazione del web dove c'è concentrazione di fondi di investimento e di cryptobros?

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

Il social network Bluesky si prepara a grandi cambiamenti con l'annuncio di oggi di aver raccolto 100 milioni di dollari in un round di finanziamento di Serie B. Il round, guidato da Bain Capital Crypto, si è concluso nell'aprile del 2025 ma non era stato reso pubblico fino ad ora. Tra gli altri partecipanti al round figurano gli investitori già presenti Alumni Ventures e True Ventures, oltre ad Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta e Knight Foundation. Questo round segue il round di Serie A da 15 milioni di dollari di Bluesky , guidato da Blockchain Capital e concluso nel 2024, e il round di seed da 8 milioni di dollari ricevuto da Neo e altri angel investor l'anno precedente. Bluesky non ha reso nota la sua valutazione aggiornata.

techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/blue…

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch

Bluesky's Series B closed last April but is being shared now, the week after its CEO stepped down.
Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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Informa Pirata

@Katy B. 📚 🥛 ti dirò, a me non dispiace l'idea di base che c'è dietro Bluesky, l'interfaccia è molto buona e può insegnare molto al Fdiverso.

Malgrado questo però preferisco il Fediverso, sia per le possibilità che attualmente presenta (formattazione, messaggi lunghi, autodeterminazione totale) sia per il tipo di realtà sociale che c'è dietro e dentro al Fediverso

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Katy B. 📚 🥛

ammetto che ho il sospetto che il poco appeal che bluesky ha e ha avuto verso di me sia per i profili che ho scelto di "seguire" e che mi fanno sentire come fossi su facebook. Ma è anche vero che anche la modalità discover, che mostra altri account, non è poi tanto diversa, quindi l'errore non può essere tutto mio.

Qui sul fediverso ritrovo le persone che su bluesky latitano.
Quindi le mie ragioni sono legate principalmente ai contenuti.

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Not one more dime for war until we have universal health care and high-speed rail from Boston to Miami, from Seattle to San Diego,from New York to Chicago
to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between.

Starve the military-industrial complex of
corporate welfare and build up American society instead.

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Dear computer companies,

This -> ✨

Is now the Mark Of Cain. I will never ever click any button that features it.

Regards,

Approximately everyone

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" Corbyn Submits Gaza Tribunal Findings of #UK ‘Complicity in Genocide’ to #ICC . "

#CommonDreams #Palestine #Gaza #StopGazaGenocide #SuspendIsrael #BreakTheSiege #news

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Corbyn Submits Gaza Tribunal Findings of UK ‘Complicity in Genocide’ to ICC | Common Dreams

"The report recommends a full investigation by the International Criminal Court into Britain’s complicity and participation in genocide," said the leftist lawmaker.
brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
#news #gaza #palestine #uk #ICC #breakthesiege #commondreams #stopgazagenocide #suspendisrael

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