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

free advice I give to anyone who asks these days : LIE to every part of the internet that isn’t a government like you got your first PC in 1993 and were part of eternal September

birthday, name, gender, occupation, location, interests, favourite colour, ALL OF IT

data brokerage gets a whole lot darker under an autocracy, and one of the few things you can somewhat control is the fidelity of *your* data. lie, use disposable/temporary emails whenever you can, and make it muddy af

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Before Intuit became the foul operation it is today, it was one of the Silicon Valley companies I admired. Like so many other tech companies, the richer it got, the more evil it got. Its "Direct File" sabotage is the prime example:

https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
privateger@plasmatrap.com ("Latte macchiato :blobcoffee: :ablobcat_longlong:") wrote:

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

Abrego Garcia is at least still alive, thankfully.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.

Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html

Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi. :blobcatcoffee:

🧵

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive

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

The main difference between Mastodon and Bluesky is that here, I’m scolded for being a stupid MAGA apologist for saying that that I don’t think a constitutional crisis is the only way we could get authoritarian rule, whereas over there, I’m scolded for being a stupid MAGA apologist for failing to acknowledge the obvious truth that Elon Musk hacked voting machines to steal the election for Harris.

At least everyone seems to agree about the diagnosis, if not the symptoms.

Boosted by jwz:
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:

This really was the 80s. The kids don’t even know.

Boosted by jwz:
mloxton@med-mastodon.com ("Matthew Loxton") wrote:

I guess we now have the FDA that the people voted for

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

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

Let me get this straight: David Brooks and Bill Kristol are now leading voices in the resistance while Schumer and Jeffries are debating whether or not to play catch up.

Do I have that right?

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I didn't; this was a rumor. It's not actually a thing that's happening.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@mikereinholz777/post/DIkQbh-zTSh

jwz wrote:

It's hard to make it even a few paragraphs in to the various articles about Musk's eugenicist breeding program, because as far as I can tell, the women involved are all *also* MAGA fascists, and the only thing that makes them victims in this story is that, after agreeing to be breeding stock, turkey-basted by Übermensch Musk Spunk™, they didn't think that the leopards would eat *their* faces too.

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

Shouty people who shout at me to be more shouty remind me why I try not to be shouty.

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

@jmcclure When I was a kid I used to like to yell at strangers on the Internet, too. But we didn't call it that yet.

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

Trump owns 53% of the Trump Media company, which has recently announced it’s getting into crypto. Three days after Trump Media announced a partnership with Crypto.​com, Crypto​.com got the news that the SEC was dropping its investigation into their company.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.

https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto-empire/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
nborboen@social.epfl.ch ("Nicolas Borboën") wrote:

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launched the European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) website https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/

#ENISA #EUVD #CVE #Security #Europe #EuropeanAlternatives

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

It's hard to keep this in your head watching the feckless coverage of what Trump/Musk is doing, but all of these cuts are *illegal*. So are the tariffs. None of it is above board because Congress hasn't approved *any* of it.

The threats against law firms and news orgs and unis are *brazenly* illegal. It's all fugazi.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I hope this baby finds a loving home soon 😭 If you're near Franklin, KY please consider it.

https://www.petfinder.com/cat/bootsie-76052124/ky/franklin/friends-of-the-shelter-simpson-co-animal-shelter-ky185/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Almost everybody in the CFPB has been fired. It was the regulator set up to stop another 2008 financial crisis occurring. https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-has-been-gutted/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

“Don’t fork the ecosystem” will be occupying my head for the short term. /via @jimniels

https://open.substack.com/pub/subconscious/p/dont-fork-the-ecosystem

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

anyway a much more practical use of stty is to disable `Ctrl+S`

(please do not explain to me how Ctrl+S was useful to you in the 80s/90s/etc)

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

this album came out 30+ years ago, it's real good and you should get it (and the rest of their stuff which they seem to have control of how)

https://curve.bandcamp.com/album/doppelganger

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Overheard: “I like a mojito, I just don’t like all the mint in it”

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

truth from @CARROT

Attachments:

• video: 820123e4778e4ecf.mp4

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I used to wonder why billionaires had underground bunkers. Like what do they know that the rest of us don’t.

Now I’m like “oh”

jwz wrote:

This whole Van Hollen situation is giving "Leo Ryan visits Jonestown" vibes.

Except Jim Jones is POTUS.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/17/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation-van-hollen/83138586007/

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

Over on bluesky, getting a bunch of people claiming "Elon Musk's voting machines were programmed to steal votes from Harris", but they don't make clear what brand of pillows they're selling.

It's sort of the 2025 version of "Bill Gates put 5G chips in the COVID vaccine to track you".

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Lefties doing harmful protests? Stop it, you creeps.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/17/a-bad-way-to-protest/

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

The people urging me to be violent, they just get blocked with a shrug.

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

At that point, the *best case* is a constitutional crisis. That at least exposes who's on what side, and provides a potentially peaceful path for resolving it.