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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Yeah, I'm just whistling past the graveyard over here...

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm not sure what's up with creating new music videos for old songs, but I'm enjoying it. New official video for Christopher Cross's "Ride Like The Wind":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA9uaBqvRtA

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

@redoak anyway, I assume you’re busy most days trying to convince the Talking Heads to change the name of that song, so thanks for engaging with me instead.

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

the mint is flowering

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

@dusk @LordCaramac I know you’re trying to make some sort of point here, but the simple reality is that the safest way to react if the real police are trying to detain you (or have entered your home) is often very different from the safest response to an armed criminal. Misunderstanding or blurring those lines can be fatal.

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

A sad and troubling impression from #jsnation and #reactsummit was that a huge fraction of the frontend community is happy to drink at the nazi bar. They don't even seem to feel embarrassed about posting on xitter. 🤦🤦🤦

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

Anyway, be safe out there.

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

Personally, I’ve used a Faraday bag “for real” while out and about with a phone exactly once, and that was under an extremely unusual, particular set of circumstances.

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

In particular, a Faraday bag protects you from a very narrow and specific set of phone-related threats, at considerable usability and functionality cost. And they require a nuanced understanding of what they do and what your threat is to use effectively.

If you don’t know exactly what you need one for, you probably don’t.

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

With all due respect, Governor, fuck that.
Stay home if you must for your own safety and wellbeing.

Some of us are ALREADY on the front lines of this war, and not by choice.

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

No, we're not going to cower in the face of right-wing political violence.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/06/14/a-dismal-way-to-start-the-march/

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

Much discussion about “opsec” (a term I don’t love when talking about people exercising their rights, but whatever) at protests today, including about phones and Faraday containers.

A Faraday container is probably less useful here than you think it is, but if you do rely on one, make sure it actually works. Here’s a post I did a while back on the ins and outs of containing RF: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

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Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

“you ever think about how in 2009 DHS released a report about the growing threat of violent domestic terrorism from the right and then Republicans got so mad about it the DHS secretary resigned?” —Kelsey Atherton

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

@agitatra It’s an impossible dilemma, from which a straight line can be drawn from current law enforcement tactics.

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Protesting at #NoKings tomorrow? Use this for your phone background.

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

The most broken thing the #BrokenTimes doesn't do today: It doesn't cover the NoKings protests on its home page (can you find it?). There is a link to a 6/11 story about other protests. There is plenty of coverage of Trump's fascist parade. The rest of us? No.

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carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

"Event at capacity". Tomorrow's Healdsburg protest. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblesonomacounty/event/793469/

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publicdomainrev ("The Public Domain Review") wrote:

First page of "Dialogue of Frederic Ruysch and his Mummies", a short skit by the great Italian writer Giacomo Leopardi, who died today in 1837 (aged just 38). Leopardi's subject here is a real life physician renowned for his macabre anatomical displays: https://buff.ly/2Tu5t7w

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ebender00 ("Eric Bender") wrote:

Today millions of us will peacefully protest this country's slide into fascism at many hundreds of No Kings events.

There's no mention of this gigantic event anywhere on the current NY Times home page, even in stories under the "US Protests" link highlighted here in red.

#resistance #nokings #NYtimes @jeffjarvis

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

The #BrokenTimes does have a story about NoKings: buried. I found it by searching--could not find where it is linked. The story does not provide a link to tell readers where protests are around them, only links to its stories about Trump. Not journalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/no-kings-protest-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1

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Locusmag ("Locus Magazine") wrote:

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

The #BrokenTimes does have a story about NoKings: buried. I found it by searching--could not find where it is linked. The story does not provide a link to tell readers where protests are around them, only links to its stories about Trump. Not journalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/no-kings-protest-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1

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michelin@hachyderm.io ("Michel Lind :fedora: :debian:") wrote:

I’ve attended some amazing sessions
(official and hallway) at @devconf_cz so far, but this is definitely the best yet

Lucas Lasota @llas of @fsfe talking about taking on #Apple in favor of the EU #DigitalMarketsAct

#DevConf_CZ #DevConf2025 #FOSSConf #FOSSConference

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Here's The Guardian's coverage. This is news judgment.

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

No Kings Day is here. Today is going to be one of the biggest and most widespread days of peaceful protest in American history, with millions of Americans taking to the streets in every state. This land is our land and we don’t do kings here. Please join us: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF%5FSOURCE=indivisible #nokings

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• video: 34673785296ec541.mp4

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Der Spiegel writes about the US as a no-go zone for German tourists.

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fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

My mother is unreasonably irritated by wonky picture frames, so once when I was angry with her as a kid I tilted all the way frames in the house slightly. Just a little bit every day. When she finally noticed they were all wonky she was furious, I told her it was the wind

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rednikki@toot.boston wrote:

@lzg Also, go to a smaller local protest vs. the big city one! For three reasons:
1. Less likely to have people that want to start something (on either side)
2. When people see protests in their smaller area, it makes the whole thing FEEL much bigger
3. Meet like-minded neighbors!

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

The AI Con book tour is headed abroad! @alex and I aren't traveling together but check out https://thecon.ai/events for our upcoming events, starting with Edinburgh (Alex, June 20), Sydney (Emily, June 25) and Melbourne (Emily, July 1)