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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:

Gosh, what a surprise! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/08/we-didnt-click-consent-on-any-gambling-website-so-how-did-facebook-know-where-wed-been

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

@keenan @adam https://rknight.me/blog/my-first-digital-photo/

Boosted by jwz:
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Libertarians are just babybigots taking their first steps into fascism. Unrealistic ideas of independence and individualism in a world that thrives on community. Usually because the future nazi is mad they have to share resources with others, usually of a different background and race.

Libertarianism is just a gateway drug to full on authoritarian nazism. It always was. That includes Ayn Rand’s weird self.

Run with it.

From: @errleigh
https://mastodon.social/@errleigh/113970938370257996

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:

It is natural to know despair in dark times, to feel dread and uncertainty. But do not immerse yourself in doom. Seek out joy and light, wherever you can find it, to keep despair from being the only feeling you have space for.

Boosted by jwz:
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:

Putting positive energy into the Universe.

jwz wrote:

Everything is Reagan's fault.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
matt@isfeeling.social ("Matt Birchler") wrote:

100% agreed.
https://cosocial.ca/@john/113963130445226457

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“said U.S. officials would take steps to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program for Afrikaners in South Africa, who are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers.”

not even bothering to disguise the racism

jwz wrote:

Project 2025,1988 Edition.
"Our projections show that by the year 2025, not only America, but the entire planet will be under the protection and the dominion of this power alliance. The gains have been substantial both for ourselves and for you, the human power elite."
https://jwz.org/b/ykhk

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
thepru ("Rodney Pruitt") wrote:

Little/big improvement: Turn on the hi-contrast focus style on AppleTV.

Should be the default.

https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2021/06/tiny-tip-high-contrast-focus-apple-tv/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

More details on censorship at the CDC from Alexander Tin. TLDR; Trump officials stopped CDC scientists from publishing data on bird flu in the MMWR. Instead, at the last minute they forced CDC scientists to publish on the health risks of wildfires to bolster Trump's attacks on California Governor Gavin Newsom's handling of the wildfires.

Story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-officials-influence-cdc-mmwr/

Boosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

kind of sucks that the best way to "buy" digital books at the moment is typically to pirate the book, then buy some shitty DRM-locked e-book you never open

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
simonstl ("Simon St.Laurent") wrote:

This seems to me like the core of contemporary US politics.

"Crime for members of the political appointees of the executive branch is now "legal" in the sense that there is no agency to prosecute it. Until reporting reflects this explicitly, journalists are just talking about a fantasy country." https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/02/the-purge.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

Global sea surface temperatures were already rising 4.5 times faster in 2019-2023 than in 1985-1989. New study by researchers at University of Reading.
Correcting for effects of ENSO, volcanoes and solar radiation, they found an accelerating trend.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adaa8a/pdf

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

An interaction on a different platform caused me to boil down a central result of the past decade of web app consulting: high-functioning organisations should ban SPAs and the technologies that are premised on SPA architectures.

Some should add exception processes for specific products, but that must come with heightened oversight. And any org that can't rattle off what that oversight should consist of should *never* adopt SPA tech.

Boosted by jwz:
jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:

Latest comic: Plutobrats

#cartoon #comic #politics #uspol #tech

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

A group of neo-Nazis went to Cincinnati Ohio this week to wave Nazi flags off of highway overpasses.

Only problem is they did this in a Black neighborhood that's had enough of their hateful bullshit.

Police were unwilling or unable to keep the crowd of pissed off Black Americans from running off the Nazis.

#Ohio #Cincinnati #Nazi #BlackMastodon

Attachments:

• gifv: b665891450b4fc9c.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

I've started posting on LinkedIn all the unconstitutional shit Trump and Musk are doing to undermine the security and integrity of our government. Mainly because that crowd needs to hear it most. It's incredible how many people in the infosec space are still defending the actions of DOGE and its dear leader(s). And they're not all crypto bros and AI peddlers; we're talking about people in some pretty important roles, tech-wise.

But at least when they reply with the inevitable "stay in your lane" or "I used to like you when you stayed out of politics," they are on record as complicit and totally okay with what is going on.

jwz wrote:

Apple Pass push notifications.

Dear Lazyweb, do I need to care about this, and if so, what do I do about it? "Apple Push Notification service server certificate update". Currently I send push notifications for Apple Wallet updates like so: $ctx =...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhi

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Cookbooks with recipes that require 3 to 4 hours of preparation time don't seem to have the slightest idea how my appetite works.

Boosted by jwz:
TheSpaceshipper@socel.net ("The Spaceshipper 🚀") wrote:

Planet of the Apes premiered 57 years ago today.

"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"

Boosted by jwz:
SidFudd@4bear.com ("Taylor Jessen") wrote:

A helpful reminder today from @pluralistic that the first step in beating the enemy is knowing their names. The beast trying to eat us all isn't some unknowable force; it's a bunch of specific human beings with addresses and SSNs. I long for a website www.youreonmylistpal.com where the worst people in America are named and described in horrible detail, so that when the time comes we can...er...remove them from our Christmas card lists 😉

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless

Boosted by jwz:
ratonbaveur@kolektiva.social ("Raton Baveur") wrote:

Ok, so i've been reading the wikipedia entry on nazi economy for... obvious reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%5Fof%5FNazi%5FGermany

It's quite fascinating, actually. I got three main takes out of it:

(1) The so-called "nazi economic miracle" of 1933-1939 was a complete fabrication. It was a ponzi scheme. They were fudging the numbers, hard. And even the looting of jewish properties, the slave labor, the looting of conquered land, they couldn't make it.

By September 1939, they *had* to be at war with Britain and France because their bonds were coming due and they had no money to pay them back.

Or in other words, don't invest in fascist shit. They lie all the time, why do you think they'd stop lying in their economic reports?

(2) So, 1933 was pretty much the bottom of the barrel of the Great Depression, right? Working condition in 1933 must have been terrible, but thing would be going better (well for the white non-jewish, non-queer males, anyway), right?

Wrong. The average salary of the workers went *down* 25% from 1933 to 1939, mostly due to the elimination of unions. That so-called "miracle" never reached down to the actual people.

Or in short, you think things are bad? They'll get a lot worse.

(3) We can't blame the factory owners at the time, they had to follow orders, right? It was obey or be shot, right?

Turns out that wasn't the case. The nazis didn't put pressure on factory owners because they didn't have to. The great capitalists were quite happy with the new regime, and almost to a T they supported what they did. They didn't even flinch when slave labor was introduced, heck most of them complained that they didn't get enough of them slaves!

Or in other words, eat the rich, because they sure have no qualms about eating you.

So, this is a wikipedia reading, don't quote me on this stuff. But it's worth doing your own reading i think, given where we're headed.

#RepublicansAreNazis #FuckNazis #MakeTheWorldABetterPlacePunchANaziInTheFace #FuckTrump

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
transworldexpress@milliways.social ("TransWorldExpress") wrote:

-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-

American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.

We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.

So we made a wiki.

We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.

https://transworldexpress.org/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
exile@social.lol ("CF~Exile") wrote:

The footnotes from Apple’s Inclusion and Diversity page, as of Feb. 8, 2025.

I’m not looking to inspire any discourse (I know there is a wide range of opinions on Apple, corporate posturing, etc.). I simply just wish to publicly document these specific footnotes I found so that if any changes occur, for better or for worse, they will be noticed.

If nothing changes, I think that’s overall good in this environment. But if these are removed, or altered to remove these facts, it will be telling.

Boosted by jwz:
Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

The gall of the DNC asking me for $100 with the hopes that Susan Collins suddenly votes her conscience someday is the Lucy with the football Charlie Brown comic come to life. We know how this ends: badly.

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,
I think this is impossible, but I'll ask again anyway:

What I have: An iOS 15.8.3 Shortcut Automation that does:

• When I get a message containing 'stop2end'
• Send 'STOP' to 'Sender'

What I want it to also do:

• Block caller 'Sender'
• Delete this conversation

https://jwz.org/b/ykhf

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

“If we don’t resign, remote workers have been told they need to move to work in one of nine cities by March 3, and we haven’t been told if we get to pick from among the nine or if we will randomly be assigned to a city in which we don’t live or have any connections.” #AnniePorter https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/opm-fork-musk-trump-federal-personnel-management-employee.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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