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Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@angusm @billclawson @pluralistic To be fair, the repressive death cult also operates a fundraising business.

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

No Kings, no Tanks, get out there and protest. Even if conservatives are shooting at you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/14/time-to-protest/

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

lol

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
steve@discuss.systems ("Steve Canon") wrote:

@angusm @billclawson @pluralistic when we’re all dead, the fundraising texts will stop, so

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markarayner@mas.to ("Mark A. Rayner") wrote:

I need about a dozen of these.

#cat #cats #caturday #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Goddamnit, #BrokenTimes, your headline implies LA started this. It is not a war. It is an attack on the city and its residents by the fascist regime. Headlines like this give their crimes cover.
How L.A. Ignited a New War Over Immigration https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/los-angeles-protests-buildup.html?smid=tw-share

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
xankarn@mastodon.online ("Alexander Karn") wrote:

#NoKings

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firefoxx66@mstdn.science ("Dr Emma Hodcroft :verified:") wrote:

My American friends: I hope you join me today.
To stand up for our freedom to assemble & our freedom of speech. To reject authoritarianism & dictatorship.
To demand the government be accountable to the people - not the reverse.

#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtest

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
christianp@mathstodon.xyz ("Christian Lawson-Perfect") wrote:

My kids love their trampoline, but they only spend 50% of the time bouncing up, wasting the other 50% falling down.

That's why I'm not spending another penny on trampoline maintenance until they can improve efficiency and reduce wasted falling time to at most 25%.

This toot is about austerity.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

A lot of companies seem to misunderstand the role of pay in hiring and retaining smart people. In my first year at Microsoft Research I listened to a (normally sensible) member of the lab’s leadership team explain that the bonus structure was there to incentivise good research. I looked around the room and wondered who had ever thought ‘well, I was going to do some mediocre research, but for 20% more money this year I will do something world leading!’ My guess: no one.

If you want to hire the best people, you are looking for the people who, if money didn’t matter, would do the job for free because they believe it’s important and care about the outcome. You don’t pay them well to persuade them to work. You pay them well so that they can afford to work on the things that they think are important. If smart people don’t think the things you’re doing are important then you should consider why you’re doing them.

This is especially true for executive compensation. The best CEOs are ones that care about the company’s products and want everyone to use them, not the ones that want to make the most money. This is especially true for non profits where your pool should start with people who care a lot about the organisation’s mission. Paying more (above a certain level) won’t find more of those people it will simply dilute the pool with people who are there for the money, not the mission.

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Report from the Amsterdam protest: there are a few hundred people here and two uniformed Dutch cops at a respectful distance very casually chatting with each other while they wait for nothing to hurry up and happen.

A lot of people are tourists (American or otherwise) who happened to see the protest because the US consulate is between several museums. They’re all like “hell yeah I’m stopping for this.” Passing bikes ring their bells (some of them might even be in support and not because Americans are standing on the bike path). I don’t know where someone in Amsterdam found an enormous California bear flag on such short notice

And yes, everyone loves Odin, who randomly decided to put his paws up on my shoulders when we were very visible to the crowd

#nokings #Amsterdam #protest #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #netherlands

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

What's this?

The poster board section of a Target in #LosAngeles

They're all gone

Why are all the posters gone?

🤔

#NoKings

(bye for now #Mastodon, I leave soon myself to join my local #protest #demonstration)

#USA

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

@billclawson @pluralistic Essentially, political power in the US is now divided between a repressive death cult and a fundraising business, and the reason that the death cult keeps winning is because at least you can get people excited about joining a death cult.

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tris@namtao.com ("Tris") wrote:

I learned this from @pluralistic in https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/

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glc@mastodon.online ("GLC") wrote:

@pluralistic
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-13-alex-padilla-assault-senate-democrats-genius-act/

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz wrote:

@mcr314 @CorvidCrone @Alison @pluralistic

As long as you're an American citizen (or even a permanent resident), you can legally donate to candidates in a different state (or territory or federal district). But you can't donate to Bernie as a Canadian; you have to pay for a sticker instead.

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TheGreatLlama@kolektiva.social ("The Great Llama :fuck_verify:") wrote:

@cptbutton @CorvidCrone @Alison @pluralistic
If you ever do meet someone named Isaac you have to tell them, "Oh man... I've got a BUNCH of your text messages!"

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
fediforum@spectra.video ("FediForum") wrote:

FediForum Keynote: Cory Doctorow

https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

@fediforum The Fediverse has a real friend in @pluralistic .

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

Aside: Although the new embassy, which had been in the works for years, opened during the first Trump administration, he disliked the building so much that he refused to attend its official opening. Presumably not enough gold-leaf.

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

Deigned by the Philadelphia architectural firm KieranTimberlake*, the chancery building incorporates a number of sustainable design elements, and has been generally well received (international politics aside) by staff and local residents. It replaced a mid-century modern structure (by Eero Saarinen, now being redeveloped as a hotel) in the more traditionally fancypants Grosvenor Square neighborhood.

* Coincidentally, also the designer of Penn's Levine Hall, where I once had my office.

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

The new US Embassy to the UK, completed in 2017, is a roughly cubically-shaped glass box covered on three sides with a semi-transparent textured Teflon "envelope" that aids in temperature regulation. Situated in a landscaped compound on the Thames between the Battersea Power Station and MI6's famous Vauxhall headquarters, it's one of the most distinctive recent structures on that part of London's South Bank.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/8) lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50, 1/50 sec), Cambo WRS-5005 camera (Shifted vertically -19mm, horizontally -10mm). Cropped to a 4x5 aspect ratio.

The embassy's exterior "envelope" curtain forms an interesting abstract pattern that reminds me of the sound absorbing tiles that line recording studios and anechoic chambers. This photo shows the western-facing side.

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

US Embassy, Wandsworth, London, UK, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the awkward diplomacy, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54586230547/in/photostream/

#photography

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kylehalevi@mastodon.design ("Kyle Halevi") wrote:

The evolution of the iOS toggle switch

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dwineman@xoxo.zone ("Dan Wineman") wrote:

I asked Adobe Acrobat’s AI Assistant for help editing a Dungeons & Dragons character sheet. It didn’t know anything about Acrobat but it was happy to talk about D&D. Relatable!

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

Hey, @mwichary, dis u?

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

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antifaintl@kolektiva.social ("Antifa International") wrote:

#outofcontrol #thatthingisfascism