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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Work slowly.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Tired: I didn’t get your joke.

Wired: I got your joke, but am worried that others, who are not as smart and well-informed as I am, might not. Therefore, I would like you to make the following clarifying edits to your joke, as well as adding these links to provide proper context. …

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jwz wrote:

@davidgerard EFF has been a bed-shitting machine for years now.

From taking the position that it should be illegal for businesses to require proof of vaccination in 2022, to framing "you must report your income to the IRS" as a "cryptocurrency surveillance provision" in 2021, the electronic frontier is a land of contrasts.

If taxation didn't exist they would reflexively oppose it on privacy-maximalist grounds.

I wonder what they think of gun registration these days.

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alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest. This letter was dictated over the phone from the ICE detention facility in Louisiana:

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.

Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn’t the
Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his
family an ocean away. It isn’t the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing.

Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.

On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor’s safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours — I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request.

My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free
Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January’s
ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.

I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land
since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being
Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel’s use of administrative detention — imprisonment without trial or charge — to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace.

I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being
targeted.

While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled
my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University. Presidents Shafik, Armstrong, and Dean
Yarhi-Milo laid the groundwork for the U.S. government to target me by arbitrarily disciplining
pro-Palestinian students and allowing viral doxing campaigns — based on racism and disinformation —
to go unchecked.

Columbia targeted me for my activism, creating a new authoritarian disciplinary office to bypass due
process and silence students criticizing Israel. Columbia surrendered to federal pressure by disclosing student records to Congress and yielding to the Trump administration's latest threats. My arrest, the expulsion or suspension of at least 22 Columbia students — some stripped of their B.A. degrees just weeks before graduation — and the expulsion of SWC President Grant Miner on the eve of contract negotiations, are clear examples.

If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation. Students have long been at the forefront of change — leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the frontlines of the civil rights movement, and driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Today, too, even if the public has yet to fully grasp it, it is students who steer us toward truth and justice.

The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent. Visa-holders, green-card carriers, and citizens alike will all be targeted for their political beliefs. In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine. At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.

Knowing fully that this moment transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free to witness the birth of my first-born child.

https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2025/03/Letter%5Ffrom%5Fa%5FPalestinian%5FPolitical%5FPrisoner%5Fin%5FLouisiana%5FMarch%5F18,%5F2025.pdf

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batkaren@mastodon.online wrote:

Pretty done with stories about dudes snogging chicks who were drugged unconscious—let’s return to simpler tales where if a guy saw a woman bathing naked, she turned him into a stag and set his own hounds upon him to rip him limb from limb.

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mcswys@threads.net ("McSweeney's") wrote:

"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/senator-schumer-votes-to-let-the-big-wooden-horse-into-troy

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

When Twitter launched encrypted DMs they were bad. They haven't improved. The person behind them is now a senior member of DOGE and getting appointed to the board of a government-backed mortgage giant: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71188.html

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daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh Brenecki") wrote:

With the power of AI, you too can take your startup from “fucking around” to “finding out” in as little as two days!

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OGjester@stranger.social ("Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓") wrote:

@flexghost I do enjoy rolling this one out:

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

time for a CQ

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raymondpert@mastodon.cloud ("R. Scott Pert") wrote:

Markets: According to Bank of America: "biggest drop in US equity allocation ever."

> A new survey from Bank of America shows that global fund managers are moving out of domestic companies in what analysts at the financial giant describe as the "biggest drop in U.S. equity allocation ever." The reason: growing pessimism about the country's economic outlook as the Trump administration beats the drum for a #tradewar with #Canada, #Mexico, #China and other countries
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stocks-down-trump-tariffs-trade-wars/ #stocks

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AndrewHenry@mastodon.energy ("Andrew Henry") wrote:

This BYD rapid charge news seemed gimmicky to me at first but if you can charge in five minutes then an EV no longer needs the big batteries that some cars have.

Most of my return trips in my EV are under 100km, why get an EV with a battery that can provide 500km of range.

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Shares of Tesla tumbled 5.3 per cent Tuesday, while BYD Co. shot to an all-time high after unveiling an electric car that can be charged as quickly as a gas vehicle is refueled.

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#EV
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2025/03/18/tesla-stock-slapped-down-by-chinese-rivals-game-changer-tech/

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jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Canada to partner with Australia on early warning detection system in the Arctic

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canada-early-warning-detection-arctic-1.7486640

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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

setting up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

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AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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Some_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:

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wraptile@fosstodon.org wrote:

March Grand Sumo is very exciting this year! Evene if you don't know anything about it these highlights are very easy to follow

https://youtu.be/%5Fkt7TeDhrFc

#sumo

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coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:

Kahless tells us that where your journey takes you is less important than who you are when you get there. Be true, warrior, and be glorious no matter your destination.

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cpi wrote:

For those younger, Nazi shit used to be siloed in places like Stormfront. In the 2010s the Silicon Valley techbros discovered that hate&rage was very addictive and started feeding people more and more fringe content to addict them to their sites.
Pervasive hate was normalized to maximize profits.

1930s nazis relied on IBM.
Modern nazis relied on Google and Facebook and Twitter.
Capitalism unmoored from morality always delivers horrors.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

The EFF has shit the bed again. This is a stirring cry to encourage startups ... specifically, AI startups. This ain't it chief.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/californias-ab-412-bill-could-crush-startups-and-cement-big-tech-ai-monopoly

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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:

Ten-foot-tall glowing Tron Recognizer papercraft in a nightclub is wild work

https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/03/17.html

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aiBlanket@mastodon.sdf.org ("Art in a Blanket Fort") wrote:

“He’s fine. He just plays dead when he’s had enough socializing.”

#quote #quotes #cartoon #comics #introvert #funny

jwz wrote:

Is there a feed where someone is posting all of the photos and videos of Teslas getting torched? Asking for a friend.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

I was hesitant to say it, but the more I watch this spring's basho, the more I think Hoshoryu's advancement was premature.

#sumo

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Teenage girls: beware of this man.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/18/the-minnesota-republican-party-is-full-of-these-guys/

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

corporation: hey! you want ai in everything right?
people: not really
corporation: *puts gun on table* hey! you want ai in everything right?