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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2024

Watching the Ken Burns documentary on the Dust Bowl, I am struck by how the history of the United States can be traced through a sequence of epic speculations, scams, and crashes. This country is so much more, but it is forever scamming, forever being scammed, and forever trying to remediate […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2024

Who cares what the founders of the US intended? They thought it was okay to own human beings and that women weren't full people. We can do so much better. We know so much more about governance and ethics than they ever did. We should do what we know is right, not what a bunch of slavers wanted.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2024

If you can't afford to tip generously, then you couldn't really afford whatever you were paying for. (Obviously, not every perdonal service goes with tips. I don't tip my dentist. And tipping is a garbage institution, much like rating personal service out of five stars. But it's not one we can […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2024

Your life depends on millions of people. You and I need millions of people. We can’t know them all. We will never meet them all. But, self-sufficiency is an illusion, often an expensive and thinly drawn one at that. The more high tech and comfortable your life is? The more true this is. I do […]

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Mab_813 @mab-813.fedi.at.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024

I don't think that yesterday has hurt South Korea's reputation. Lawmakers unanimously voting against martial law, national assembly staff blocking soldiers with fire extinguishers, people taking to the streets to protest while not giving a damn that this is illegal under martial law, the […]

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2024

Hot take. LED status indicators on devices are often (though not always) difficult to read. Charging lights make it hard to keep a bedroom properly dark at night unless you carefully cut little foil squares and neatly tape them over the LED. But then you lose the usefulness of a charging […]

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

/4 Also: when Jeremy Peters or anyone at the New York Times complains about “unsparing criticism” or any other variation on “cancel culture,” remember they have one of the most powerful megaphones in the world and they are griping about back-talk from social media accounts.

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

“We are living in a world in which there is a war on truth. And what I think is coming is a war on journalists. I want to talk about America. Because what happens in America is going to affect us all.” And teachers. Scientists. Librarians. Activists. Lawyers. There are dark clouds gathering […]

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2024

I mean, come on. *Of course* obedience is the goal of the ruling class, and "justice" (as defined by laws) is a bullshit narrative. It's always been that way in this country, whether we were busy genociding native peoples, grasping tightly onto slaves (still ongoing today, btw), colonizing […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2024

The best way to help those who are or will be under a dangerous political regime is to normalize the tools that protect them. If you use Whatsapp, try to replace as many conversations as you can with Signal. If you use Gmail or Outlook, switch to an independent privacy preserving provider, at […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2024

"I can’t believe leopards are eating my face!” says woman who voted for the “Leopards Eating Your Face Party”. www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-wh…

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

An ex-NY Times columnist and Ivy League grad interviewed a billionaire about how he, the world’s richest man, and several other billionaires helped another billionaire/Ivy League grad/real estate mogul world defeat an HBCU grad to reclaim the most powerful office in the world. The headline:

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/11/2024

Yes. This thread. It amazes me how much of the discourse seems to believe that a few extreme rando voices online, which don't even remotely represent the Democratic coalition are held up as the core beliefs of the Dems.

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 12/11/2024

Ignorance of the law when you’re a civilian: No excuse, you shoulda known, pay this fine/go to jail Ignorance of the law when you’re a cop: Really, when you think about it, what even IS knowledge, anyway

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ChalkLlate @chalklatte.wolfdo.gg · 12/11/2024

hot take all those people who say "utopias are paradoxes you cant make a perfect world" ok bro we cant make the perfect pizza either but chefs are always trying and people are enjoying better slices because of it asshat maybe something doesnt have to be obtainable to be worth trying

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Mitch Wagner @mitchw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2024

Outstanding post from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic calling for a general strike in 2028 "Trump is a scab, the Dems need unions, and the Dems are not faithful friends to unions. Harris campaign advisor – her brother-in-law Tony West – is Uber's chief legal officer ... The fact that when the […]

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Whatever happens, try to do the right thing, try to protect people weaker than you, try to stand up to bullies, try to speak truth to power.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

If you think history is going to reflect on us fondly, well, expect it to be about as fondly as southern slave owners. You are going to be a monster among monsters. "I wasn't one of the 1%" is going to be "I only enslaved one or two black people, not like a big plantation." kind of excuse.

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2024

The find out period is going to make me just die of continuous anger. Everyone wants to say it's someone else's fault and get into a big argument about agency and governance. It's our fault, it's entirely our fucking fault. I owned cars and flew in planes, I ate meat and Amazon'd shit I didn't […]

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Fascinating. But this is the path most “heterodox” thinkers take. Their hatred of the left ultimately displaces and distorts whatever allegiance they had to liberalism. The idea that Harris poses a proportionate threat as Trump on on speech, democracy, etc. just isn’t serious.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

It is impossible for an American president to be a "good person" it's not a good person job. As commander and chief of the US Military and steward of US hegemony you are morally gray at best. (And staying gray not going fully dark is worth it, the best we can hope for now.) We should ask the […]

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

In advance, to save time later, fuck everyone who minimizes, waves away, or gives apologia for this.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/11/2024

I do understand the desire of "mainstream" media to platform "conservative" voices, but at some point, you have to realize that doesn't mean any fucking nutball counts. If there are no non-batshit "conservatives" on a topic, maybe *that* is worth discussing.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Put another way, the Trumpers calling for violence and genocide shouldn’t fear they’ll be in danger in the street. They should fear they’ll never be safe in an airport or an elevator or a dry cleaners or a Starbucks ever again.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Plus, I just want to point out that if and when we see the violence many Trumpers seem to thirst for, Trumpers shouldn’t fear the wild-eyed flamboyant radicals in the streets. They should fear dumpy-looking middle aged white guys like me who will calmly walk up behind them without anyone noticing.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The reason my bags aren’t packed is this is my home, I won’t yield it to shitbirds, and if fascists win, I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to undermine them, never giving them a moment’s peace and making their already miserable lives as additionally miserable as possible.

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Tilde Lowengrimm @tilde.infosec.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2024

I've heard a couple of times this week something to the effect of "Nazis aren't people.". I know that it's really appealing to dehumanize them because that makes it easier to fight back and resist. And because it is horrifying to imagine people acting this way. But it's so much worse than that […]

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

/2 There is an ethos fashionable in America that if YOU think foreigners should be detained in camps and I think you are a shit for thinking so, that makes ME the intolerant person. It is not an ethos for which I have any respect, and I am less and less inclined to conceal that.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2024

I am not sure that people outside the US who have not had to deal with a similar party leader understand when we say, 'cult', we mean an actual, completely brainwashed cult. Not just racists. Not just people who like strong men or fascism, as exists globally today. An actual cult, where the […]

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Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2024

The only thing Jeff Bezos‘ editorial in the Washington Post convinced me is that we need a steep wealth tax and that the existence of billionaires is a public policy failure.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/10/2024

If the anti-trans side is really saying that they want to exclude trans women whether or not they have a competitive advantage, is this still about different ideas of fairness? What does fairness mean to a side that doesn't care if the advantages they are supposedly so upset about really exist?

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 28/10/2024

The piece circles and avoids the question: Does anti-trans side think it's fair for trans women to compete IF THERE IS NO ATHLETIC ADVANTAGE? Is their idea of unfairness grounded in trans women having an advantage, and what would it mean to our understanding of their side if trans women don't?

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2024

A vote for a third party this year is a vote for fascism. A vote to punish Harris even though you know Trump if vastly worse is a vote for fascism. Not voting is a vote for fascism. This is the starkest choice in decades: democracy or fascism. It truly is that simple.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2024

One area where post-consumer plastic recycling is actually happening is black plastic, such as for kitchen utensils and takeout containers. They're made from recycled electronics products, flame-retardants and all. A supermajority of tested spatulas and sushi trays children's toys contained […]

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/10/2024

When Elon said recently that if Harris wins she'll put him in prison I didn't realize that was actually kind of an admission of all the crimey things he was doing.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/10/2024

You simply cannot be assimilationist and against trans teens transitioning. Those two positions are completely opposed to each other.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 21/10/2024

Just going to point out that this is what the push for SOPA was in the US twelve years ago, to pass a similar law that would force similar blocks. And recently the RIAA/MPA has started making noises about how we should revisit SOPA. Such laws ALWAYS lead to overblocking. ALWAYS.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2024

If they can go after after teachers, librarians, election workers, nurses, and disaster relief workers, eventually they'll go after whatever it is you are, too.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2024

The latest Woodward book is also the latest reminder that employees of journalism organizations who withhold important news in order to sell books are -- at best -- not doing the public any favors. That's the kindest way to put it. I believe it's unethical in a journalistic sense. But it's […]

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